Author: Dick Mangrum

In a ceremony this morning, checks will be presented to the top three winners of the Festival of Trees competition at Duke Energy’s World of Energy education center at Oconee Nuclear Station. In first place, nonprofit organization Making My Mark, decorated by Century 21 Hometown Realtors, will receive $2,500; in second place, the Pilot Club of Seneca will receive $1,500; […]

Friday afternoon shoppers at the Seneca Belk store were out of luck.  The store closed at mid afternoon to allow public safety responders to investigate an odor, perhaps, emanating from the electrical system at the Applewood Center store.  Fire Chief Richie Caudill said there’s no fire, but Belk personnel were to arrive at the story to help identify the odor […]

Two people were jailed by the Oconee Sheriff’s Office after deputies were sent to investigate a fight early Thursday morning on Gammell Street in the Utica Community. Arrest records reveal that one of the two arrested is a Seneca man wanted by the state of Alabama as an escaped fugitive. Patrick David Griffis of Gammell Street was charged breach of […]

Today’s accident on SC 183/the Pickens Highway between the 188 junction and the High Falls Road was serious, but could have been even more serious.  We’re told by responders that driver received minor injuries, even though his pickup cleared guardrail and flipped.  The accident was reported around 10:15 this morning at 183 and New Cut Road.

A Seneca man was arrested and charged this week with grand larceny in a Walhalla police investigation of the case of a car stolen March 30 at 208 S. Tugaloo Street. According to Chief Sean Brinson, 38-year old Kenneth Morice Jordan was charged with grand larceny and arrested New Year’s Eve. A personal recognizance bond of $10 thousand dollars applies […]

The first newborn at the Prisma Oconee Memorial Hospital came into this world at 12:46 pm yesterday. A photographer and two reporters were escorted into the hospital room for a chance to see the newborn and to meet and speak to the mother. The newborn is Loyalty Grace Roberts and the mother is Seneca resident Megan Roberts. Delivering physician was […]

U-S Rep. Jeff Duncan has reacted to the killing by the U-S in Iraq of a top Iranian military commander.  The 3rd District Republican said:  I applaud President Trump for taking decisive action to take out Qassem Soleimani, a brutal terrorist with the blood of countless Americans on his hands.”  Soleimani headed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force, a U-S […]

At their meeting next week, Clemson’s elected leaders will consider arrangements to allow for a viewing party for the national collegiate championship game. At the Monday meeting, Mayor J-C Cook will propose to the city council that part of College Avenue be closed and open container law be suspended inside the gated event area for watching Clemson-Louisiana State.