Author: Dick Mangrum

Seven individual matters of potential economic development in Oconee County will be dangled next week in front of the county council.  Discussion is planned in an executive session, following council’s regular meeting Tuesday night.  For now the projects are code-named the following descriptions:  Drift, Thread, Remy, Matlock, Ruby Slipper, Street Car, and West Clemson.  

Once piped sewer eventually makes it way throughout Fair Play and I-85, residents there have been cautioned to expect growth and development for their small community.  Oconee County Council is to consider a recommendation to provide $17,500 for a comprehensive strategic master plan to prepare for growth and development in the southern section of the county. That money would be […]

The sheriff’s office is withholding specifics about an adult male for whom a medical helicopter was arranged yesterday morning in southern Oconee County.  The man’s injuries were first suspected to have been the result of a stabbing, but later the sheriff’s office called what happened an assault involving family members in the Earles Grove Community.  The incident remains under investigation. […]

The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) today announced the agency is accepting grant applications from organizations to help expand awareness and information about the COVID-19 vaccines and help increase vaccination rates in South Carolina. Our goal is to vaccinate as many eligible South Carolinians as possible and help end the COVID-19 pandemic. Recognizing that South Carolina […]

A South Carolina Bank of America top officer, Kim Wilkerson, will sit in the chairman’s seat during meetings of the Clemson University Board of Trustees.  Wilkerson has been a board of trustees’ member since 2010.  It’s not the first time she has achieved a first for her gender.  Wilkerson also became the first woman to be named president of a […]

The police stopped a car last night at a Walhalla intersection, and that resulted in drug charges against a 30-year old woman.  The police say Whitney Peay of Sunshine Circle, Westminster was charged with trafficking methamphetamine more than 28 grams; possession of schedule II controlled substance; and possession with intent to distribute marijuana.  The stop occurred at WS Broad and […]

In the latest 24-hour period, cases of COVID-19 in South Carolina numbered 307.  Five of the new cases are Oconee County residents.  Over a three-day period, the number of new cases statewide increased by about 150.  Across the state, the death toll from the virus increased by five people. Of 5,624 test results received the positivity was 7.3%. The numbers […]

Deputies were sent to an address this morning in southern Oconee to investigate a report of a stabbing.  According to the sheriff’s office, a patient was found at an address on the Sam Brown Road and a medical transport helicopter was arranged to land and take off at a spot near highway 59.  Master Deputy Jimmy Watt says the case […]

Sam Dickson and Dick Cottingham, in their capacity as members of Oconee’s state “C” Fund Committee, welcomed and approved the town of Salem request today to make street and sidewalk improvements.  A third committee member, Tally Grant, was absent from this morning’s meeting. Town Clerk Marti Jennings says the approval of $356 thousand, 300 dollars should be enough to repair […]

  The condition of a state highway in northern Oconee that draws complaints from motorists will get attention next year, as the result of a vote this morning by Oconee’s state “C” Fund Committee.  The local DOT was approved for $1.6 million from the county’s pot of C fund money.  That’s the estimate for what it will take to re-surface […]