Author: Dick Mangrum

With COVID-19 safety guidelines followed, promotions and recognition ceremonies for Oconee Sheriff’s Office personnel were held separately and in a socially-distance manner.  Some of those promoted included personnel who responded in life-saving situations.

Life seems full of many uncertainties this day.  But, for sure, we can count on an arrival this weekend.  At 2 o’clock Sunday morning, we come to the end of Daylight Saving Time.  Which means we’ll need to change our timepieces by one hour.  Each fall, we turn back the clocks one hour.  Meaning that, for most of us, we […]

South Carolina’s COVID-19 numbers keep on rising.  This morning we have a count for the last three days of numbers reported by the state health agency.  For the reporting period Friday through yesterday, additional case numbers statewide were 2,693.  That includes 1,281 cases on yesterday’s report.  The death toll also inches upward, with 18 deaths reported Friday; 13 deaths Saturday; […]

  The 2020 Election Day is fewer than two weeks away, and it’s already starting to be crunch time if you are planning to cast your ballot by mail absentee.  Joy Scharich, the Oconee elections director, says, “Tomorrow is the last day if you’re mailing an absentee request back, we have to get it by tomorrow in order for your […]

A 16-year old student at Anderson’s T-L Hanna High School becomes the first student to attend classes at both his high school and Tri-County Tech, while working part-time at Anderson County’s Arthrex plant.  Starting Monday, Austin Singleton will work part-time at Arthrex as a CNC machine operator youth apprentice.  There are many registered youth apprenticeship programs across the state that […]

You can forgive Americans if they’ve been so consumed by how and when to vote and the continuous COVID-19 crisis that they paid little or no attention this week to an achievement in outer space.  But a former Seneca man, now 91, paid a lot of attention to the news that a spacecraft successfully touched down on an asteroid deep […]

    Increasing local and area COVID case numbers are believed to be linked to the return of college students, and now Clemson University has decided that after the Thanksgiving break, it will     move to online-only instruction.  That’ll cover the last two weeks of the fall semester.  The final day of regular on-campus classes will be Tuesday, November 24.  The […]

Thursday, November 26 is the day that Seneca’s chief of police, John Covington, will retire.  The city made the announcement late yesterday afternoon, saying that until Thanksgiving Day its chief will remain on personal administrative leave.  Which means Casey Bowling, the interim chief, will continue in that capacity until a successor is found.  Covington is part of a large Seneca […]

South Carolina DHEC reported Thursday 929 new, confirmed cases of COVID-19, along with 40 additional, confirmed deaths.  One new Oconee death reported, that of an elderly resident who died October 7.  Today’s numbers bring to 160,384 the number of South Carolina confirmed cases.  The latest death toll statewide is 3,526.  The total number of individual test results reported to DHEC […]