Author: Dick Mangrum

Thanks to a number of businesses and individual donors, last Saturday’s food giveaway in Westminster was a major success.  Some 150 boxes of food were given away in one hour.  This was a satisfying event especially for Charles Mulwee Sr., the founder of Community Tree Center at 200 E. Main Street. Mulwee and his helpers were able to box items […]

The Blood Connection will station its mobile vehicle this Saturday at Seneca’s Cruzin’ on Main, and you can look for the blood collectors between 2 and 7 pm near the Wells Fargo Bank.  The need for donors is critical perhaps, in part, due to the mistaken belief by some people who think they can’t give blood if they have been […]

Thursday is being targeted as the new date to re-open the Oconee County Courthouse to walk-in business.  Meantime, according to Clerk of Court Lisa Burton, the drive-thru there is handling business dealings.  For the most part, terms of Common Pleas and Family Court are being conducted thru the state’s virtual courtroom apparatus, even though there are a few in-person Family […]

Fire burned a mobile home Sunday morning in Mountain Rest.  Fire fighters were sent to the scene on Morehead Place Road at the Verner Mill Road.  No one hurt.

Walhallans are starting their day with a reminder that special election time in their city is two weeks away.  Signs are appearing along Main Street on behalf of the two ballot candidates for an open city council seats.  The candidates are Gwen Owens and Christy Marlow.  Special election day in the city is April 13.

One year ago, there were indications Walhalla intended to fast-track the construction of a drive-thru window at its city hall on N. Church Street.  It never happened, and a year later one councilman remains convinced the drive-thru is still a pressing need.  Not entirely for the reasons of protecting public health in the pandemic, but for easing the physical restraints […]

Five years later, the death of Randy Smith in Anderson remains unsolved.  His family and the Anderson Area Crimestoppers are offering a $6,500 reward for information that leads to the arrest of the persons or persons responsible.  On March 30, 2016 Smith was headed home from work and stopped at a convenience store on E. Whitner Street in the city […]

Gas prices in the Carolinas have decreased, and the Auto Club Group AAA Carolinas says the reasons are growing stock levels and cheaper crude oil prices. Crude prices changed in reaction to world news, including concerns of new European lock downs and tight vaccination supplies.  Affecting the price of crude also was the stranded container ship which, until yesterday, blocked […]

There’s added incentive today to give the gift of life.  By donating blood today on National Doctors’ Day, you are signifying gratitude to the professionals whose work during the pandemic has been relentless to help healing.  For every donation received today, the Blood Connection is donating five dollars to Doctors Without Borders.  As a thank you, the Blood Connection will […]

An Oconee County man was jailed Friday on multiple charges that arose from an alleged incident of armed robbery one week earlier in Utica.  During the early morning hours March 19, a man says he walked into a home on Humbert Street and was immediately became a hostage victim.  He says he was tied up, held at the point of […]