Author: Dick Mangrum

At this time of year, bears have emerged from hibernation and they are hungry, as a group of campers found over the weekend in Oconee County.  They called for help.  In this instance, however, there was no need to panic.  Bears usually want to avoid humans, as much as campers and other non-hunters want to avoid them.  Nevertheless, it pays […]

The calendar that Oconee public schools are following to conclude another year of public education is not the usual when it comes to the last days for classes.  This year’s calendar calls for students to remain in the classrooms for days after the May 29 graduation ceremonies for the three high schools.  Students in the rest of the high school […]

A medical helicopter flew a motorcyclist to an out of county hospital yesterday after an accident on SC 28/the Blue Ridge Boulevard near the Poplar Springs Bridge.  The accident involved a car and resulted in a traffic backup for motorists headed toward Seneca.  The accident occurred around 4 pm.

Oconee County agriculture leader Stanley Gibson gave an explanation last week as to the new roadwork that has been completed in front of the county Farm Center on the Sandifer Boulevard. Gibson told the county Agricultural Advisory Board that a contractor created a second entrance, along with a perimeter road.  The cutting of trees at the front of the property […]

Seneca fire fighters and mutual aid departments found themselves at the scene of a home fire early Saturday morning in Utica.  The fire department reported an aggressive interior attack to stop the fire on E. Lonsdale Street and success in containing the fire to the back of the home.  At first reports, no injuries.

On yesterday’s South Carolina DHEC report on COVID-19, here were numbers for both the state and the county:  261 new cases statewide, including three in Oconee County.  There were an additional 17 deaths from the virus, including one elderly Pickens County resident and two Anderson County residents.  One was of middle-age and the second elderly.  Of 10,905 test results in […]

The police in Seneca say an accident at mid-afternoon on Friday occurred in congested traffic at U-S 123 and the Lindsay Road.  Cap. McClure says the accident involved a car and a motorcycle and the motorcyclist, a Six Mile man, was taken to the hospital with what were called non-life threatening injuries

A requested change in zoning tops the agenda tonight for the Seneca Planning Commission.  Property owner Jacob Miles Emerson will request the city planning commissioners to change property on the 300 block of N. Walnut from office commercial to residence office.  The city hall hearing is scheduled at 6 tonight.