Author: Dick Mangrum

An accidental stove fire late last night near Seneca inflicted grease burns to the hands and arms of a resident of the McPhail Apartments near the Carson Road.  Chief Richie Caudill of the Seneca Fire Department said the victim was conscious and showed no respiratory problems.  However, because of the burns the decision was made to evacuate him to the […]

A driver and a passenger were airlifted for medical treatment from a late night two-vehicle accident on S. Highway 11 not far from Parkway Campers.  Lance Corporal Joe Hovis of the highway patrol identified the two requiring treatment as Able Chavez-Bausita of Hartwell, Georgia, along with an 8-year old passenger.  Both vehicles were headed south on the two-lane highway.  Hovis […]

A head-on crash around one o’clock yesterday afternoon near Seneca left a motorcyclist dead and a second driver charged by the highway patrol.  The coroner said the crash reported on 59 two miles south of the city limit was fatal to 32-year old motorcyclist and Westminster resident William Andrew Cheek.  According to state trooper Joe Hovis, pickup truck driven by […]

Part of SC 11 between Seneca and Westminster was closed six hours during the night after two vehicles, believed to have been trucks, collided in the vicinity of Parkway Campers.  The accident scene required two separate medical helicopters and two people were flown to hospitals outside the county for medical treatment. The accident was reported shortly before 10 o’clock.  The […]

One person from a midnight home fire near Seneca was flown by medical helicopter to the regional burn center at Augusta, Georgia.  The fire occurred on Kelly Drive near the Carson Road, and the primary responders were Seneca fire fighters.

Oconee County Council likes the job done by the county attorney.  After a closed-door meeting last evening, the council approved a new contract for David Root, the attorney.  Root gets three years added to his work arrangement, along with expanded severance pay from three to nine months in the event the council ends his contract.

The Oconee deputy injured in this morning’s accident near highway 59 in the Crossroads Community was responding to a pursuit that started on highway 24.  Neither the deputy, nor the driver of the pursued vehicle, was identified by name. The deputy and the other driver were taken to the hospital.  And the sheriff’s office says it will not identify the […]

The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) today announced 1,106 new confirmed cases and 3 new probable cases of the novel coronavirus COVID-19, and 8 additional confirmed deaths and 2 probable deaths. There are currently 881 hospital beds occupied by patients who have either tested positive or are under investigation for COVID-19. This brings the total number […]

Clemson announces that the city will have masks available for pickup by businesses which then can make sure their customers are face-covered, to help push down the infection spread.  Each Clemson business will be allotted a maximum of 100 masks.  The business owners or their designated representatives should pick up their supply Monday at City Hall between  9 am and […]

Information has been received to indicate that there were at least three serious traffic accidents today in Oconee County.  An announcement is anticipated from the sheriff’s office to detail what happened this morning in the southern part of the county where an officer’s car hit a tree not far from highway 59, apparently in pursuit of another driver. State troopers […]