Author: Dick Mangrum

Members of the state DNR dive team recovered the body of a missing kayaker Saturday at the Martin Creek area of Lake Hartwell.  Pennsylvania resident Kellen Jerome Mackey was part of a group of three kayakers who left the dock at a home on Cartee Drive.  The kayak capsized and, of the three, 26-year old Mackey never re-surfaced.  DNR officers […]

SC 11 and Bear Swamp Road is an accident scene.  The state patrol logged the accident just after 9 this morning.  According to a public safety source, heavy car damage reported, but apparently no one hurt.

Three days of COVID-19 numbers in South Carolina are to be reported this afternoon by the state health agency.  Those days are to cover what was entered on the record for Thursday through Saturday last week.  For the latest 24-hour period, for Wednesday last week, there were confirmed 560 new cases of the virus in the state—20 of them in […]

Kevin Bronson, city administrator, will ask Westminster City Council tomorrow to approve a letter that is ready to be sent to the Piedmont Municipal Power Agency.  At stake, is the city’s future power purchase contract as a member of PMPA, a consortium of upstate municipalities that derive electric power from a Duke nuclear reactor.  Bronson represents his city on the […]

At tomorrow’s November meeting of Westminster City Council first up is outside auditor Cheryl Medders.  Of the certified public accountants firm, McKinley, Cooper and Company, Medders will officially report the comprehensive financial audit of city expenses and revenues for the year that ended June 30.  The council will meet at 5 pm tomorrow at the fire department.  

Electric-run vehicles are able to juice up at a recently-opened charging station operated by the Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative at exit 4 on I-85 near the line between Oconee and Anderson counties.  Now operating there are 12 Tesla superchargers and one ChargePoint Express 250 fast charger.  Jim Lovinggood, Blue Ridge president/CEO, explains in the newest “South Carolina Living” magazine that, […]

The driver of a pickup truck has been arrested as part of the state patrol’s investigation of two traffic fatalities last week in Pickens County.  Master Trooper David Jones announced charges of felony DUI with death and felony DUI with great bodily injury in the 123 accident November 2 near the Liberty exits.  Over the weekend the driver accused—Jose Martin […]

In a year dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic, a rural Oconee fire station believes it has kept up with the challenges it faced.  The Corinth-Shiloh Fire Department covers parts of Oconee County on opposite sides of U-S 123, the Seneca-Clemson corridor.  There, it experiences the push out of an expanding Clemson University enrollment and an assortment of student apartment homes […]

The body of a 26-year old Pennsylvanian was recovered from Lake Hartwell around noon on Saturday, hours after a kayak flipped, and he failed to re-surface.  Oconee Coroner Karl Addis ruled drowning in the death of Kellen Jerome Mackey of New Brighton near Pittsburgh.  The search scene was the Cartee Road in the Martin Creek part of the lake.  Around […]