Author: Dick Mangrum

A 41-year old man, wanted on multiple charges, was placed into custody on Edna Drive near Westminster.  Evan Michael Hood was sent to jail to face charges in an investigation into carjacking and grand larceny.  According to the sheriff’s office, Hood is accused of being involved in an incident one year ago in the vicinity of Seneca’s Mountain View Drive […]

In a two-hour drop-in, style meeting, Fair Play residents took part in the process to arrive at a master plan for their small community that has an interstate running through it.  Inside the bays of the community fire department, professional planners hired by the county displayed aerial photographs of Fair Play as it exists today and invited comments on what […]

The Blood Connection is saluting the country’s veterans by inviting the community to make a donation to its Special Forces Wounded Warrior Fund.  Between Tuesday and Thursday, the Blood Connection will donate $10 to the fund for every blood donor who gives at 13 donation centers across the Carolinas and Georgia.  The Special Forces Wounded Warrior Fund helps families of […]

Clemson University recently held a first-time lecture to honor the state’s place in civil rights history—including the roles several South Carolinians played in shaping the state and country’s drive for equality.  The Joseph and Mattie De Laine Lecture Series was held October 19 in the ballroom of the Madren Conference Center.  It featured historic documents, artifacts and interview excerpts that […]

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, […]