Author: Dick Mangrum

The board of directors of the Pioneer Rural Water District got a look at state DOT drawings that portend major changes for the large intersection in what’s considered Fair Play village.  For many motorists, negotiating where SC 59, 182, and 243 converge can be a dicey scenario.  The displayed drawings show the state proposes a pair of T-intersections that’ll apparently […]

A 17-year old left her home yesterday morning through a bedroom window, and a search of the property by deputies did not locate her.  Now Adrianna Marie Redondo is considered a missing person, and her information has been entered into the database of NCIC, the National Crime Information Center.  Adrianna was last seen in a white T-shirt and ripped blue […]

The governing board of Pioneer Rural Water District received an eye-popping estimate for what it’s going to cost to re-locate a pair of water lines to make way for a highway widening project.  According to General Manager Terry Pruitt, Pioneer officials have been told the estimate is $8 million dollars to re-locate two lines that carry water between Townville and […]

When it comes to the matter of Oconee’s sanitary sewer operations, the buck often stops with Chris Eleazer.  And his employers like the job that he’s doing.  Eleazer has worked as executive director of the Joint Regional Sewer Authority at Seneca since 2017 and is only the third such director in the approximate 40-year history of piper sewer that links […]

Courtesy and respect are qualities that could play a role to create safer Oconee County road travel, especially when it comes to the slow-moving but the very valuable farm machinery so common in the county’s agricultural heartland.  Last night’s meeting of the county agricultural advisory board zeroed in on a need for an awareness program directed toward the non-agricultural driving […]

The city of Clemson is entertaining entries for a pilot public art project involving the CATBus shelter on highway 93 next to Sardi’s Den/Goober’s.  Entries will be accepted from artists from Pickens, Anderson, and Oconee counties.

Twenty-first century technologies that include drones and other remotely operated equipment will play a part next week during an inspection of the Keowee Dam near Duke Energy’s Keowee Hydro Station and the Oconee Nuclear plant.  Duke has a letter from “FERC” – the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission—giving it the go ahead to de-water the power tunnel for what a spokeswoman […]

Oconee sheriff’s officers say a 24-year old man was arrested after being found slumped over in the driver’s seat at a s. highway 11 convenience store.  According to the sheriff’s office, the charge of trafficking in cocaine against Joshua Dillon Ford was made in the investigation Sunday of a suspicious vehicle.  A deputy found Ford inside a black SUV.  A […]

One of the two drivers in a Saturday motor vehicle accident in the South Union Community has been cited by the highway patrol with hit and run with great bodily injury.  Magistrate Blake Norton said the state patrol also cited Bradley Thomas Barnett, 25, of E. Richfield Drive, Westminster with felony driving under the influence bodily injury.  From the accident […]