Author: Dick Mangrum

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 […]

The police in Seneca found one person wounded by gunfire, and today request the public’s to provide information that leads to the shooter.  This morning the police say they are looking for a woman by the name of Kendal Ann Ellis, and they consider her to be armed and dangerous.  Anyone with knowledge of Ellis’s whereabouts is asked to contact […]

Oconee Democrats who tuned to a virtual meeting heard pitches from six candidates, including their presumptive nominee for President, in November.  The Saturday meeting served as the local party’s annual fundraiser and Joe Biden’s appearance came in a recorded video.  Besides Biden, five other November candidates spoke:  Jaime Harrison for the U-S Senate; Hosea Cleveland for U-S House of Representatives […]

Election day is fewer than 100 days from now.  And, once again in South Carolina, mail-in or in-person absentee voting could play a big role in just how many this year’s vote for President will attract.  So far in Oconee County, the elections director says, the county has received around 300 completed applications requesting absentee ballots.  When approved, Joy Scharich […]

The Seneca City Council will assemble at 6 tomorrow evening at the City Hall for the July work session, along with a special meeting to follow the workshop.  Among business matters before the elected leaders is a supplemental contract for financial help through the federal “CARES” act.  The mayor and council will also hear the financial outlook for the city’s […]

With the re-opening of Oconee public schools delayed until late August, the school district has decided to extend its summer feeding program through the 18th of August.  You can find times and pickup locations on the district website.  Any child, 18 and under, is eligible for free meals.

The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control Suoday announced 1,170 new confirmed cases and three new probable cases of the novel coronavirus COVID-19, 25 additional confirmed deaths and three new probable deaths.  Oconee’s numbers included 14 new cases, but no additional deaths.  DHEC announced one new Oconee death on Saturday—an elderly person who died on Thursday. This brings […]

The annual fundraiser today for the Oconee Democratic Party has taken on added attention with the announcement that Joe Biden will address the virtual event at 6 o’clock this evening.  The county Democrats are raising money for their party through the sale of plates of barbecue which are available until 5 o’clock this afternoon at party headquarters on S. College […]