Author: Dick Mangrum

General Sessions Judge Scott Sprouse began qualifying the jury this morning for the start of an Oconee Courthouse trial.  Arrested by the sheriff’s office in April last year, William David Gunn faces the following charges burglary first degree, resisting arrest, malicious injury to property, and possession of tools capable of being used in a crime.  From the pool of jurors, […]

BabyRead is a free, pre-literacy program in Oconee County.  Readers such as Katie Conlin encourage and support parents and caregivers to read to their children every day.  Conlin describes the benefits of public service programs to society and the inner satisfaction that she and other readers gain from this volunteer activity.  Conlin will be the guest on this weekend’s “Community […]

Pickens County receives a new director of DSS this week.  In a long career in social services, Cynthia Wolthuis has experience in the tri-counties including Oconee County work as an investigations’ leader and team coordinator.  She starts her new duties Wednesday with the Pickens County DSS. In a statement, she said, “I am a proponent of the new initiatives DSS […]

“Hub” opponent Catherine Watt hopes to head off final approval tonight for the controversial residential-commercial project in Clemson.  Watt says, “I will be making a motion to send the proposal back to Planning Commission for 4 weeks so we can do one last evaluation based on what we’ve learned over the past two months.  Will see who agrees.  We owe […]

Inside the cafetorium of the new Seneca Middle School, about 200 people heard Oconee’s economic development recruiter predict announcements of new investments in the county are not far away.  Jamie Gilbert of Oconee Economic Alliance says three pending announcements go before the county council this week and the county is one of four finalists for a project, the decision on […]

A Sunday afternoon I-85 accident in Anderson County took the life of 20-year-old motorcyclist Zackary Michael Stelk, a Simpsonville resident.  Coroner Greg Shore said the accident on 85 northbound near mile marker 20.5 occurred when Stelk’s motorcycle ran into the back of a pickup truck.  Stelk was thrown from the motorcycle.

A 20-year-old Mount Pleasant woman has died at a Greenville hospital, after a midnight hour accident yesterday in Clemson.  Chief Deputy Coroner Wilson of Pickens County said the accident that cost the life of Caroline Deer occurred at Old Stone Church Road near Ridgecrest Drive.  According to the coroner’s account, the vehicle went off Old Stone Church Road and overturned, […]

Today’s the birthdate for WGOG.  This radio station went on the air 65 years ago at this same Westminster Highway location, in what one of our early announcers remembered to have been a cotton patch, not far from a drive-in movie theatre.