Author: Dick Mangrum

The  Corinth-Shiloh Fire Department is recruiting volunteers and soliciting funds to carry out its mission to serve and protect a large swath of eastern Oconee County.  In a letter to community residents, the fire department says it lost a number of long-time volunteers in the last year,  but new recruits are taking courses for fire and medical certifications.  Financially, the […]

U-S representatives in South Carolina are imploring the state’s governor to do what he can to forbid the idea of “vaccine passports” taking hold in the state.  It’s a concern not only confined to South Carolina, but in other states, as well, where there’s concern that travel groups might insist travelers prove that they’ve been inoculated against COVID-19.  Among those […]

The board of zoning appeals in Walhalla will deliberate a pair of issues at 5:30 this evening at the Depot.  On the agenda:  a variance for a business at 207 Booker Drive and a special exception request for a mobile home at 114 Norton Street.

According to the report issued Saturday by South Carolina DHEC: There were an additional 632 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in South Carolina, including eight in Oconee County.  Statewide:  13 additional deaths.  Of 25,045 test results, the South Carolina positivity was 3.5%.

A fire last night on Walhalla’s Corey Road is being termed suspicious by the fire department.  Around 7:45 last night, the fire department discovered a mobile home partially on fire.  Refuse in the yard of the Corey Road home also was burning.  There were no known occupants or injuries; however, Chief Burton says his department is interested in learning the […]

New South Carolina COVID-19 cases:  683, including 16 in Oconee County. Statewide, seven more deaths. Of 25,392 test results, the new positivity:  3.9%.  

In a Thursday afternoon traffic stop near Seneca’s Miracle Circle,  Oconee County resident James Joseph Ungaro Jr.  was taken into custody and charged with multiple offenses including attempted murder, kidnapping, malicious injury to personal property, and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime in a case described as a domestic violence investigation. Arrest warrants allege 29-year […]

In an early morning arrest, a 29-year old man has been jailed and accused on 12 counts of criminal sexual conduct with a minor third degree.  The Oconee Sheriff’s Office identifies the accused as Dillon James Abronski, who gave two addresses:  Laing Court, Seneca and E. Paulsboro, New Jersey.  Seneca police officers booked Abronski into the jail at 3:24 this […]

A two-vehicle crash in Oconee County, on the Seneca Creek Road, took the life yesterday of a motorcyclist.  Coroner Addis identified the deceased as a 20-year old Clemson student, Caleb Matthew Griffis.  He lived in Tallulah Falls, Georgia.  The accident, not far from the Seneca Creek Boat Ramp, was reported at 3:15 pm.  Griffis died at 4:19 in the emergency […]