Author: Dick Mangrum

To recognize National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day on Friday, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) will offer free testing at participating DHEC clinics, and encourages all South Carolinians to get tested, know your status, and get treatment. The theme is “Together for Love: Stop HIV Stigma.” DHEC is also promoting the goal of “Ending the Epidemics” […]

The top litter officer for the Oconee Sheriff’s Office, Zachary Owen, stayed busy in 2019. Corp. Owen responded to 440 complaints—a sign there’s little let up to the county’s continuous problem of people who litter, whether by accident or on purpose. Inmate labor last year scooped up more than 37 thousand pounds of trash and litter. The Sheriff’s Office this […]

A 47-year old prison inmate, with ties to Oconee County, escaped yesterday from a correctional facility in Caldwell County, North Carolina. Oconee Sheriff Mike Crenshaw this morning confirmed that his office has received information about the escape of Kevin B. Adams. According to the North Carolina Department of Public Safety, Adams is a minimum custody offender who was reported missing […]

A vote last night by the board of the Joint Regional Sewer Authority is seen as a sign that piped sewer to I-85 in Oconee is closer than ever. The sewer board voted to enter into a contract with an engineering firm for a final design of the I-85 corridor expansion project. Davis and Floyd are to receive up to […]

Horton manufacturing and the new Hamilton career center are examples of new Oconee County construction whose wastewaters will flow into the collection system of the county’s treatment plant at Seneca. But there are other commercial projects in the early stages for which the Joint Regional Sewer Authority will accept. One example is The Townes at Oakmont, a large townhouse project […]

Seneca appears close to adding a new eatery.  It’s Mayberry’s Soup and Sandwiches.  And tomorrow morning the city’s Improvements Corporation meets to review how the city’s commercial building and economic development incentives programs may assist Mayberry’s in its plans for Seneca.

The policymakers for the Oconee Joint Regional Sewer Authority spent much of their February meeting in discussion of the demands of new commercial development and the costs associated. The big question the cost of complying with DHEC when it comes to wastewater infiltration and overflows from heavy rains. The sewer commissioners want cost estimates for meeting the needs of new […]

A car driver in Seneca was startled when a deer ran out of the woods and slammed into the side of her Mazda van.  The accident occurred at 7:55 this morning at WS 4th and Perkins Creek Road.  No one in the van was hurt, but the police say the deer became incapacitated and had to be euthanized.

There’s promise of a new life for an old Westminster house, thanks to a magazine publication and the internet real estate craze. Mayor Brian Ramey, a builder by trade, has confirmed the sale of the former Dr. Simpson home on Mountain View Street to a Californian who, it is hoped, will renovate and see to it that the house is […]