Author: Dick Mangrum

Some of Westminster’s best known individuals in recreation circles were named last night to a committee to kick start the process to develop Hall Road property into a recreation complex.  And that committee features no elected officials, which Councilman Reid Adams sees as a good thing.  Adams vowed, “We’ll keep the politics out of it” – which is seen as […]

Westminster’s proposed budget, with an overall total of nearly $11.5 million, received first reading last night with a unanimous vote of the city council.  There are no property taxes or electric power increases projected, however the city administrator highlighted three separate rate increases, after a new resident from the audience questioned why the city intends to raise its retail sewer […]

Announcement is scheduled this morning of expansion plans for the BASF manufacturing plant in the Reedy Fork Community near Seneca, 101.7/WGOG NEWS has learned.  What had been code-named “Urban Mine”, according to the state Commerce Department, will mean an additional 50 jobs at BASF.  The official announcement is timed for 9 o’clock this morning.

Food will be given away during a one-hour period this afternoon in Walhalla.  The distribution at the St. Luke United Methodist Church will be 4:30 to 5:30 this afternoon.  In Westminster yesterday, the giveaway of food boxes was slower than normal, according to one of the distributors.  However, all food was handed out after three hours’ time.

A 25-year old West Union man, identified by the police as the suspect in two shootings in Westminster, has been found dead in the city of Anderson.  The Anderson County coroner, Greg Shore, says Noah Elijah Cleveland died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound and the death has been ruled a suicide. Cleveland’s death is also being investigated by the Anderson city […]

A man found dead in a home near Easley is considered by Pickens County authorities to be the victim of homicide.  The coroner, Kandy Kelley, says Heyward “Trey” Delno Price III was found dead yesterday morning at his home on Shade Tree Circle.  Kelley says Price’s death came from a gunshot wound.  By this afternoon the Pickens Sheriff’s Office reported […]

The Oconee County shelter on the Sandifer Boulevard is supposed to be a place where there’s humane treatment of unwanted animals, but an investigative report by The Journal has found otherwise. And Sheriff Mike Crenshaw, under whose direction that the shelter operates, is announcing sweeping reforms, including personnel changes.  This follows an independent assessment done by an Anderson veterinarian.  Her […]

Here are the latest COVID-19 numbers reported today by South Carolina DHEC that reflect a 24-hour count that ended 11:59 Sunday night:  New cases:  192, seven of them in Oconee.  No new deaths statewide.  Of 10,202 test results, the positivity:  4.1%.  

A 33-year old Anderson man has been arrested in a two-month investigation of thefts reported at the property of an abandoned home in Townville.  Derrick Robert Ledford was arrested over the weekend and charged in two cases of grand larceny.  Sheriff’s officers traced a stolen car and a stolen motor home as property that belonged to an address on Townville’s […]