Author: Dick Mangrum

Senators Scott and Graham of South Carolina are pleased with the final vote for a new U-S defense bill.  It includes a 5.2% pay raise for service members and billions in appropriations for South Carolina defense facilities, including the Savannah River Site.  The bill may not go as far as Senator Tim Scott would have preferred.  He said, “While no […]

A property owner applies for relief tonight from Seneca’s zoning rules.  Gabriel Yoder requests a variance from setback regulations on Lot 42 on Raven’s View Drive in the Providence Ridge home development.  The board of appeals hearing at city hall starts at 6 o’clock.

An Upstate outfit that specializes in home repairs to eligible recipients is the recipient of one of 15 Duke Energy grants for South Carolina non-profits that help seniors with home repairs.  Rebuild Upstate (Oconee and Pickens counties) receives $10 thousand.  The non-profit may use the money to install safety handrails in bathrooms, replace rotting floors, install handicap ramps, and repair […]

South Carolina Chief Justice Donald Beatty believes there’s demonstrated need for a mental health court in Anderson County to divert mentally ill persons from jails.  In an order this week, Beatty appointed At-Large Judge Cordell Maddox to preside over the Anderson Mental Health Court and Judge Lawton McIntosh as his backup.  The chief justice acknowledged that David Wagner, 10th circuit […]

After hearings late last month, two attorneys have been deemed qualified and nominated to run for a vacant judgeship in the 10th Circuit of Oconee and Anderson counties.  It’s a seat belonging to Anderson County.  According to the state’s Judicial Merit Selection Commission, the two are David Brousseau, attorney in Anderson, and Heather Vry Scalzo, attorney in Greenville.  A vote […]

The pantry at Walhalla’s St. Luke Methodist empties its shelves this afternoon of containers of packaged food, along with meat and eggs.  The food giveaway at the E. Main Street church 4:30 to 5:30 pm.

Tuesday, January 16 is the deadline set by Westminster for anyone interested in serving as that city’s next police chief to send a resume.  Because of the time it’ll take to interview and vet finalists to succeed the resigned Matt Patterson, it’s projected Westminster will name the new chief sometime in March.  That’s longer than Brian Ramey, the mayor, would […]

On Westminster’s Main Street, between Lucky and Isundega streets, motorists are violating the 25 mile an hour speed limit.  As a deterrent, the city will get prices on speed bumps.  The speed bumps the city has in mind will be of a plastic type, not the kind that loosens a driver’s fillings.  Kevin Bronson, city administrator, describes the speed bumps […]

The city administrator says a pre-trial settlement of a lawsuit among parties with Westminster’s electric power supplier means the city will have to raise its retail electric power rates.  Administrator Kevin Bronson made the prediction last night, as the city council approved his recommendation to settle the case of Greer and Rock Hill versus the Piedmont Municipal Power Agency.  The […]