Author: Dick Mangrum

Seneca officialdom will have its eyes peeled and ears opens during two hearings tonight at the City Hall.  At 6 o’clock, the board of zoning appeals will entertain comment on Eddie Adams request to vary from the zoning law as part of his effort to develop a new Subway restaurant to the side of the Ingle’s parking lot at Seneca.  […]

In the estimation of the solicitor for the 10th Circuit, David Wagner, sex crimes committed by an Oconee County couple on a boy from his 8th years of age to 18 years old are some of the most disturbing that he has ever come across. After all that was said in court this week about what Tony and Edna Sluder […]

Senator Lindsey Graham says, in spite of the impeachment articles passed by the lower chamber, the effort to oust President Trump “will meet a quick demise in the Senate.”  Fellow Graham lawmaker, Rep. Jeff Duncan, says the two impeachment articles add up to a “dark day” in the U-S.

An Anderson man for whom the Oconee Sheriff’s Office had sought the public’s help in locating has been arrested. There are ten charges listed on the booking report for Dolphus Daniel Haney, including three charges of attempted murder. Haney was arrested yesterday afternoon. On December 2, the Sheriff’s Office announced it had outstanding warrants against 29-year old Haney as the […]

A 56-year woman received a 20-year sentence in the Oconee General Sessions Court for multiple instances of incest and sexual conduct with a minor. Edna Sluder will get credit for 337 days in jail, awaiting her plea of guilty. Her husband, Anthony, was ordered earlier this week to spend 25 years in prison for his part in sex crimes which […]

A cost projection to eliminate a flood-prone Walhalla intersection came in below estimates, and the city council last night added $110 thousand dollars to its budget. City funds and those allocated by the state’s county “C” fund committee will be used to pay the contractor selected to correct the drainage problem at College and S. Broad streets. Thrift Development of […]

Foothills Farmstead reconstruction approved After years of planning and hoping, a reconstructed farmstead showcasing late 19th and early 20th century farm life in Oconee County will have the money to proceed. The County Council on Tuesday unanimously gave a stamp of approval to pass-through grant funding for $79,500 to Old Oakway Architectural Salvage to construct the farmstead at 150 Schoolhouse […]

Walhalla is on its way to creating a new zoning classification that’ll entitle homes to be built on lots of 10 thousand square feet minimum. The city council last night gave first reading to a residential-10 zoning classification, which will slot between residential-5 and residential-15. The idea for the residential-10 zone grew out of the debate about the small home […]