Author: Dick Mangrum

Beverly Whitfield is grappling with a decision.  The Oconee Clerk of Court is thinking about stepping down after her current term and retiring.  But she’s also thinking that she might offer for re-election.  Whitfield has a few days to contemplate.  The qualifying books for the primary elections do not open until Monday.

Quick-moving squad cars between Seneca and Clemson this morning.  The reason?  Oconee sheriff’s officers received a report of a burglary on Hart’s Ridge Drive.  The sheriff’s spokesman says a traffic stop was made at an address on Hart’s Cove Way.  No further details available.

The jury at the Oconee Common Pleas trial took their seats this morning for a lengthy video of the deposition of the plaintiff’s physician. Dr. Edward Booker Jr., West Union physician, testified on behalf of plaintiff Mahlon Meredith in Meredith’s damage suit against Pickens County. The dispute arises from a 2016 car accident in Walhalla involving Meredith and a Pickens […]

The public is invited to Seneca for an event next week to hear Senator Lindsey Graham talk about what’s going on with the national government and world affairs.  Graham will be the speaker for a Meet & Greet Get-together at 6 Tuesday evening at the Seneca Family Restaurant on the 123 By-Pass.  Chairman Bill Jerome of the Oconee Republicans says […]

Pickens County Democrats will hold precinct re-organization and their county convention at 9:30 Saturday morning at the Clemson-Central Library on highway 93.  Special guests for the event will be U-S Senate candidate Jaime Harrison and District Three State House candidate Eunice Lehmacher.

A decision by “FERC” – the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission – will allow a property owner’s association to build a new residential marina on the Pickens County side of Lake Keowee. The “FERC” approval March 2 comes with restrictions. The Harborside Property Owner’s Association proposes to construct three floating, cluster docks to accommodate 36 watercraft. Harborside would also place 166 […]

An Oconee County murder in 2017 will be re-told by ID, the Investigation Discovery TV channel in a program this week called “Fatal Vows.” The body of Rebecca Murray Cawthon was found stuffed inside a barrel on Welcome Church Road property near Westminster. Cawthon, 33, had been shot eight times. Her husband, Lee Mikael Cawthon, was sent to prison for […]

Three Wells Highway properties, four property owners add up to a deal to build the replacement Seneca Middle School. The county trustees last night agreed to spend $1.7 million for 43.82 acres that front the Wells Highway across from the Cross Creek Country Club entrance. The individuals from whom the district will buy the properties were not identified by name, […]

The plaintiff’s side continued to offer witnesses in the Oconee County trial of Mahlon Young Meredith versus Charlotte Tant Suddeth et al.  The dispute over a 2016 Walhalla car accident is being heard in the Common Pleas Court.  Last to testify yesterday was a Walhalla High student, Adrian Daniel Rose.  The trial resumes at 9 this morning.