Author: Dick Mangrum

The multi-county electric power retailer Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative will accept nominees next week to fill three positions on its board of directors.  One of those positions will represent Oconee County customers on Blue Ridge’s policy board.  Blue Ridge customers inside District #1 (Oconee County) are invited to attend a 10 o’clock Monday morning, March 8 meeting at the Co-Op […]

Seneca welcomes the start-up of a pair of separate downtown businesses, not only from an historic standpoint.  Scott Moulder, city administrator, told yesterday’s Black History Tea that the pair of startups—one by an African-American and the other by a Latina—not only as progress in the city’s efforts to re-vitalize the downtown business district, but as an eye-opener when it comes […]

Changes are being made in Seneca hiring practices to give minorities greater opportunity at landing city jobs.  Both the police chief and the city administrator promised those tuned to yesterday’s zoom meeting arranged by the Oconee NAACP branch on the final day of Black History Month.  The city’s new police chief, Casey Bowling, promises a colorblind approach as his department […]

Scott Moulder, Seneca city administrator, announces that “contracts are in place” to develop a mixed-use development in the Utica community on the property that sported a textile plant for around 100 years.  During a meeting yesterday, Moulder said developers are interested in a combination residential and commercial project on the S. 6th Street property.  He spoke during the annual Black […]

On today’s DHEC report, 1,197 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in South Carolina, including 24 in Oconee County.  Added to the statewide death toll:  35 South Carolina residents.  Of 26,779 test results received from the state, the positivity was 7%.  

A 24-year old man near Westminster was placed under arrest Wednesday night on charges that arise from two separate vehicle chases – one on February 11 and the other on February 23.  From the February 11 pursuit in the area of Fire Tower Road, Kenneth Charles Goss was charged with the following offenses:  failure to stop for a blue light; […]

DHEC reports 921 new cases statewide, 26 in Oconee County.  Added to the virus death in the state:  42 individuals, including two Oconeeans.  One was a middle aged resident who died January 30th; the other, an elderly person who died February 20. Of 26,810 new test results received, the state positivity was 8.4%.

While true there has been a stop to the Duke project to lay new line along a SC 188/Keowee School Road bridge, the company makes clear today that it is now vetting another contractor to come in and resume the work.  An overall objective of the work is to lay the necessary infrastructure to reduce the number of outages that […]

A roundabout is proposed to replace the current intersection of SC 24 (the West-Oak Highway), SC 182 (the Oakway Road) and S-116 (the Oak Creek Road), and the state would like to know what you think.  According to the DOT, the project was selected by local leadership as an area of concern and ranked against similar projects across the region. […]