Author: Dick Mangrum

The Christmas and New Year’s holidays are coming at a good time for the Oconee public schools.  The county schools continue to experience many students with the flu and the stomach virus.  Several schools have seen higher than normal absentee rates, although Associate Superintendent Steve Hanvey says he can’t confirm that in one school class at one particular time the […]

In the chambers of the Oconee County Council complaints have been registered that the free bus service in Seneca and surrounding parts of the county are plagued by low passenger numbers. But the executive director of “CAT”—Clemson Area Transit—refuted those assertions last night at the Seneca City Hall. “CAT’s” Keith Moody spoke to a poorly attended public hearing last night […]

A new Subway restaurant, a Publix supermarket, and a Q-T convenience store are among the changes that will affect Seneca’s busy 123-130, the East End intersection. Ed Halbig, the planning and community development director, says his city will look to the South Carolina DOT to figure out how to accommodate the traffic as safely and as efficiently as possible. During […]

A board of appeals in Seneca gave businessman Eddie Adams a variance of 20 setback feet last night that’ll allow a new Subway restaurant to fit on a below grade lot to the side of the Ingle’s parking lot. Approval was granted in a 4-0 vote, although John Voss of the zoning board of appeals raised the issue of whether […]

A Seneca bus official says for an estimated $24 thousand dollars a year, his city’s transit service can extend as far as the cities of Walhalla and Westminster. But Ed Halbig, Seneca planning and community development director, told a public hearing last night that his city will look to Oconee County and the cities of Walhalla and Westminster to share […]

A lone armed robber struck the Ingle’s supermarket last night in Westminster and got away on foot with money. The amount of the take is undisclosed, but the police chief is describing as a male, 5’10”-6’, stocky build, covered in dark clothes, dark shoes, blue gloves, face covered, and dark sunglasses. The robbery occurred at 9:21 last night when the […]

A young man was headed today from the General Sessions Court at Walhalla to start a ten-year prison term for assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature. The sentence was handed down to Tristan Phelps, a former oil rig worker, who was originally charged with criminal sexual conduct with a minor. Other terms of the sentence place Phelps […]

Walhalla Mayor Danny Edwards and three others are scheduled to take the oaths of office during a ceremonial evening at the Center for Performing Arts.  Edwards won a new term in office in November.  Holding onto their council seats were Danny Woodward and David Underwood.  A newcomer, Sarai Melendez, will start her first term as Walhalla’s only councilwoman.  The swearing […]

The new app that allows Walhallans to report crime or other suspicious behavior produced a video piece of evidence that the city police will use to build their case against a man who was arrested last week and charged with receiving stolen goods. A Walhallan used the app to play a home security video of someone carrying a bag and […]