Author: Dick Mangrum

A Wednesday night incident in the parking lot of a convenience store on the Toccoa Highway resulted in the arrest by the Oconee Sheriff’s Office of an Easley woman.  Law enforcement records show the arrest of a 29-year old woman on charges of disorderly conduct and assault on a police officer, who had responded to      a request for […]

Walhalla’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee sponsors its first town hall meeting,and community members are invited.  The meeting will be 6 pm Thursday, November 18 at New Galiliee Baptist Church, 209 S. Church Street, for the opportunity to meet city officials and hear about valuable resources in the community, ask questions, discuss concerns.  The mission statement of the committee is collaborating […]

Free COVID-19 vaccinations will be administered tomorrow in Seneca.  DHEC announces that a four hour clinic will take place at the Blue Ridge Community Center, 315 Holland Avenue, from 10 am to 2 pm.  The following vaccines to be provided:  Pfizer (two-dose, age 12+) 1st and 2nd doses available; Moderna (Two dose, age 18+) 1st and 2nd doses available; and […]

Third District U-S Representative Jeff Duncan has joined a letter to push back at what he calls President Biden’s unlawful COVID-19 vaccine mandates.  And the Laurens Republican expressed pride that the South Carolina governor and attorney general are among counterparts in the country who are suing the Biden administration.  Duncan refers to vaccine mandates as “medical tyranny.”

Local and area residents insured by United Health Care are likely breathing sighs of relief at the news that the insurer and Prisma Health have kissed and made up.  Prisma late yesterday afternoon announced a multi-year contract that, in the words of the health care provider, ensures United Healthcare members uninterrupted access to all Prisma hospitals, facilities, and physicians.  The […]

A circuit court judge has rejected a plaintiff’s bid to compel the South Carolina Department of Transportation to make safety improvements to Shiloh Road and Goddard Avenue near Seneca.  The ruling was made by 14th Circuit Judge Robert Bonds of Walterboro.  Bonds ruled against the plaintiff, Triumph Donnelly Studios Corporation, identified in court documents as an Arizona corporation with a […]

One of the unusual considerations that master planners for Fair Play is how an interstate highway running right thru it impacts or should impact the un-incorporated community in both Oconee and Anderson counties.  A professional planner from West Pelzer, Blake Sanders, is learning a lot about Fair Play, a quiet and farm area.  But it’s a community that, with the […]

A freedom of information request at Walhalla’s James Brown Elementary School is scheduled as a legal update for Oconee school trustees when they hold their November meeting Monday night in Walhalla.  The legal briefing is scheduled for the private part of Monday’s meeting where the county trustees will also take up personnel matters—employment recommendations and changes.

This afternoon’s Oconee Veterans Day Parade, in Seneca, has been cancelled cause of the rain.

The effort to produce a master plan for Fair Play will advance again today with a follow-up meeting of a corps group from the well-attended September meeting at the Beaverdam Baptist Church about the future of the community that is bisected by I-85 and is part of two counties—Oconee and Anderson.  A similar meeting to the church meeting was held […]