Author: Dick Mangrum

Crews from Walhalla’s utilities department were called into action on Saturday when a water line broke on s. highway 11.  Service was scheduled to be restored for customers within a period of a few hours.  Today, on Monday, July 5, Walhalla city offices are closed for the holiday.

The fourth Saturday in October has been chosen as the day for the Second Annual Bigfoot Festival in Westminster.  This, the 2nd such event, after one-year pause for COVID-19.  Organizers promise a pocketbook friendly day on Saturday, October 23.  There will be no admittance charge; the only cost is if you buy something.  Here’s what’s planned:  a parade, Big Foot […]

A Thursday evening car accident on a rural Oconee County state road took the life of a Seneca woman.  Amber Leigh Parker was 23 years old.  Coroner Addis says Parker died at the scene—the Burnt Tanyard Road near the Whitmire Church Road.  State trooper Brandon Bolt said the Ford sedan went left of center, over-corrected, ran off the right side […]

Two boys remain in the custody of their parents as court proceedings have been announced in the case of the homicide of a man June 23 near Westminster.  The county sheriff’s office filed a Family Court petition charging an 8-year old and a 9-year old with involuntary manslaughter of Danny Andrew Smith, 62 years old.  Sheriff Crenshaw made this statement:  […]

Oconee County solid waste facilities are closed through Monday, to allow the workers to observe the July 4 holiday.  Those facilities re-open at regular time Tuesday.

The Oconee Sheriff’s Office announces a missing 57-year old man was found today in the city of Seneca.  James Roach is OK, and has been returned to the Tribble Activity Center.  At the time he was found, Roach was pulling his red wagon on a Seneca street.

Oconee Coroner Karl Addis has confirmed that his office has been notified of the death of a 54-year old Seneca man who died one week ago (June 18) at the regional burn center in Augusta, Georgia—this after a fire at Utica.  Addis said Christopher Glenn Christian died of thermal injuries suffered in the fire. Keowee Funeral Services is assisting the […]

On his trek north to the end of the Appalachian Trail, Walhalla’s Wayne Garland has made it nearly 50 miles inside the Vermont line.  When he spoke to him by phone this afternoon, 74-year old Garland was about to start a 1,000′ climb in the vicinity of Manchester, Vermont.  The small town is considered a gateway to the Green Mountains.  […]

Deaths in South Carolina due to COIVID-19 jumped from one reported on Tuesday to 13 reported Wednesday.  The thirteen included a middle aged Oconeean who died June 15.  The numbers are reported on the report issued this afternoon by South Carolina DHEC. There were 88 new confirmed cases statewide, but none in Oconee.  Of 9,454 test results received, the positivity […]

One of Oconee County’s longest serving employees is retirement-bound.  Karen Lee’s official retirement day as Associate Probate Judge is Wednesday, June 30.  But today she’s greeting many of her friends and co-workers at a drop-in at the county government office complex.  Lee started her career in the 1980s working in the Probate Court which, then, was office in what today […]