Author: Dick Mangrum

Part of the Seneca police investigation in a spree of crime in a tornado-damaged subdivision will focus on whether the two out-of-county suspects might have been introduced to the neighborhood as part of storm repair crews.  “That is an aspect they (the investigators) are still looking into,” says Chief of Police John Covington.  Addresses given for the two men arrested […]

Walhalla High School will be the location this week for five-hours of COVID-19 testing.  The tests will be conducted by the Healthy Me Healthy SC Alliance, whose partners are Clemson University and the Medical University of South Carolina.  The tests will be given at Walhalla High School from 10 am to 3 pm Thursday.  No appointment is needed.  There’s no […]

The re-elected Oconee County councilman, Julian Davis, has been in government long enough to know that regardless of the importance and the excitement that a project creates, it can take time to see it become reality.  That’s exactly the case with the county governing board’s top priority—piped sewer to the county’s four miles of Interstate-85.  Undeveloped as much of the […]

Four miles of I-85 across Oconee and Anderson counties are now named for Chrissy Adams, the late chief prosecutor in the 10th Circuit.  Signs are in place on 85 covering two miles of the interstate in Oconee and two miles in Anderson.  Adams, a Seneca resident who died in 2016, served three terms as the 10th Circuit Solicitor.

Oconee public school students will not be allowed to attend school without all required immunizations. The School District of Oconee County encourages all families to review their students’ records to verify they have all immunizations required to attend school.  Students who do not have the required immunizations will not be allowed to attend school until vaccinations have been obtained. Based on […]

A graduate of Tri-County Technical College, Ryan Donald, has moved into the job of vice president/general manager of the Skanska construction group’s new office at Greenville.  And he gives much credit to his alma mater for an education that has allowed him to advance in the corporate world.  Donald enrolled at Tech after Seneca High School in 1989.  An early […]

The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control Monday announced 1,226 new confirmed cases and three new probable cases of the novel coronavirus COVID-19, 17 additional confirmed deaths and no new probable deaths. Among the 17 confirmed deaths were two elderly Anderson County residents and one from Pickens County. Added to the running totals are 15 new Oconee County cases; 25 from Pickens; and 58 from Anderson. […]

Extra patrol by the Seneca police paid off with the arrests of two out of county men that the police say were found in a neighborhood plagued by burglaries.  Warrants released by the city police show Donnie Dwayne Roscoe of Greenville and Christopher Frank Strickland of Pickens charged with burglary second degree and possession of tools for the commission of […]

The business of Tri-County Technical Education will resume Monday, August 17 in eight different course delivery methods that will include face-to-face along with a combination of face-to-face and online.  Most courses will have a combination of online and on-campus instruction.  As much as possible, courses that require hands-on learning will continue in person.  Tech plans to deploy mobile hot spots […]

A challenge is in the works for a seat this year on Oconee School Board of Trustees.  On the first day to qualify, Dr. Meghan McPhail Ketterman announces she’ll run for Seat Two.  That office is held by Joe Rukat, who is eligible to run again.  Ketterman says her education background includes six years classroom experience.  Three of the five […]