Author: Dick Mangrum

A Sunday night boating accident on Lake Keowee took the life of a passenger in the crash of two boats near the Fall Creek Landing.  Oconee Coroner Karl Addis identified the deceased as a 26-year old Kansas City, Missouri woman, Paige Elizabeth Morrow.  Around 7 Sunday night, Oconee 9-1-1 received a call that two boats collided in the water.  She […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is continuing to seek information and tips concerning a Walhalla man who was reported missing in February of this year.   Joshua Scott Ivester was last seen on Monday night, February 15th in the Rock Crusher Road area near Walhalla.  Joshua left a residence on Wagener Circle in Walhalla with a friend earlier that afternoon […]

DHEC numbers reflect the end of the day Wednesday (Sept. 1) New cases:  4,685 (118 in Oconee County) Statewide:  31 new deaths confirmed, including two in Pickens County Of 46,627 test results received, the new positivity:  12.6%.

In all categories of COVID-19 patients, the Prisma Health system in South Carolina, which includes the Oconee Memorial Hospital, 91% of the patients are unvaccinated against the virus.  And today a Prisma key doctor is appealing to people to take the vaccine.  The following statistics were given by Dr. Wendell James:  Prisma has 500 in-patients with COVID, and 453 are […]

Oconee’s chief judge of probate, Kenny Johns, is close to 28 years’ state retirement benefits, but his feeling is that probably he’ll offer next year for one more, four-year term.

Years ago, a young Walhalla man was a regular worker at the Oconee County Rock Crusher.  There, the boss, Tommy Crumpton regarded Jones as an excellent employee, but sensed that there was another field for which Jones held an interest.  And that was law enforcement work. Crumpton did not try to hold Jones back.  In fact, he encouraged Jones to […]

Friends, acquaintances, and colleagues dropped by a Westminster meeting hall this morning to wish Rory Jones well in the Westminster police chief’s retirement years.  After four years as the city’s chief, and preceded by several years as a Seneca police investigator, Jones is bound for the sidelines, in part, to be able to spend better quality time with his family.  […]

All branches of the Oconee Public Library, starting tomorrow, will be closed for the Labor Day weekend, including the official holiday on Monday.  The library would like you to know that book returns will be open during the weekend.  Starting Tuesday, the Seneca and Walhalla locations will start to open one hour earlier, at 9 am.  Hours for Salem and […]

A new public service award has been created in Oconee County, and among the first winners is the man for whom the award is named.  The county’s Economic Alliance announces Dave Eldridge and Steve Finger are the first winners of the Dave Eldridge Service Award.  Eldridge chairs the Tri-County Entrepreneurial Development Corporation and Finger, along with other volunteers, founded the […]

City of Walhalla sanitation trucks will be idle Monday in observance of Labor Day.  Monday’s normal trash collection route will be delayed until the next day, Tuesday.  Sanitation customers are requested to have their roll carts out Tuesday morning.  Walhalla City Hall is closed Labor Day.  The offices return to normal schedule at 8:30 Tuesday morning.