Author: Dick Mangrum

A front seat passenger died and the driver suffered what the highway patrol called life-threatening injuries Saturday afternoon in a SUV wreck in Pickens County.  The patrol reported the accident at 3 pm on SC 135 in the Dacusville Community.  Trooper David Jones said the car left the road, over-corrected, and hit several trees.  The names of those involved were […]

Across from the Westminster Middle School on SC 183, a large grass fire late this morning.  It did not endanger the school or the class schedule.

The project to re-cover 123/the Sandifer Boulevard, is scheduled to see its first work on Monday. Signs fore-telling the work on 123 from the Richland Road thru downtown Westminster to the highway 76 turn have been up for months. According to a DOT official, a start this late in the fall is liable to mean that the schedule will be […]

Oconee’s new economic development director says a “warm status” and code-named project holds promise. Annie Caggiano, in her first official report to the county economic development board, says Oconee is one of three finalists for the location by a European maker of automotive components. According to Caggiano, holiday time is a time to be patient, as few projects are finalized […]

A recent meet-and-greet with the immediate neighbors of the Oconee Regional Airport is considered to have succeeded to allay concerns of exactly what the airport is about to do in the Shiloh Road area of the airport property. According to Jeff Garrison, airport manager, airport officials were able to shoot down persisting rumors that the airport is about to re-locate […]

The Oconee Public Library System has joined libraries elsewhere in a boycott of a major publisher. Macmillan Publishers this month enacted an embargo on library e-book purchases that prevent libraries of any size from buying more than one copy of a newly-released e-book for the first eight weeks after publication. The purpose: to increase sales. The Oconee Public Library has […]

The Oconee Regional Airport seems busier. The days of the airport being little more than an airstrip in a rural part of the county seems to be gone forever. And the manager, Jeff Garrison, last night offered a couple of theories. The championship-winning era of the Clemson football team has increased the volume of air traffic during Clemson home football […]

The Salem Library extends an invitation this morning to its monthly craft/story program targeted to pre-school children.  This morning’s program at 11 o’clock is aimed at expanding the creativity of young minds and developing the motor skills needed for school.  The program theme is “Turkeys.”

The accused driver in the death last summer of a woman near Seneca has been denied bond. Which means, it’s back to jail for El Asia Hassain Muhammed, while the prosecutors prepare to bring his case to trial. At the age of 19 late at night July 1, Muhammed, it’s alleged by authorities, drove a car past the 123-Wells Highway […]

The Seneca police say a man for whom a warrant was issued has been arrested in the Pickens County town of Central. Jeremy Rothell, operations major for the Seneca police, identified Jamel Deshawn Brown as the suspect in a stabbing Friday night last week at the Seneca Gardens Apartment. The victim was hospitalized for stab wounds to the right eye […]