Author: Dick Mangrum

Eight years on the job, Mandy Tinsley’s law enforcement career with the Oconee Sheriff’s Office reached a new high today. Sgt. Tinsley received her 1,000th case of white-collar crime to investigate as lead investigator. This latest Oconee County victim saw her fraud predicament start with a phone call from someone claiming that there was an issue with her computer. It […]

A government watchdog agency has appointed a new inspector at the Oconee Nuclear Station. The NRC chose Jared Nadel as senior resident inspector. Each U-S commercial nuclear plant has at least two NRC resident inspectors. They serve as the agency’s eyes and ears at the facility, conducting inspections, monitoring major work projects, and inter-acting with plant workers and the public. […]

Word has been received from Maine of the death of Robert Gallant. He was a Belk store partner and developed Seneca’s Applewood Shopping Center which, in the 1980s, facilitated the Gallant Belk department store move from the downtown to 123/the Sandifer Boulevard. Gallant was an Anderson resident who spent summers in picturesque Maine after he and his wife, Mary, acquired […]

The City of Walhalla Water Department advises the residents of the Pickett Post/N HWY 11 area, located in Oconee County, to vigorously boil their water for at least one (1) full minute prior to drinking or cooking. An early morning water main break near Earth Berm Lane on N HWY 11 has resulted in low system pressures and a drained […]

About 5,500 feet above sea level — the magic elevation where fall color first splashes each year — the mid-September foliage along the Blue Ridge Parkway was still green as far as the eye could see and even the odd yellow specks on the landscape were just signs of drought stress. But even as Clemson University forest ecologist Don Hagan […]

The discovery of a second water line blow out this morning has forced Walhalla to re-institute the boil advisory that was lifted late yesterday afternoon. Scott Parris, utilities superintendent, says this second break also occurred Sunday but was not discovered until this morning. The location is about 200 feet from where the first break was found early Sunday. The boil […]

At opposite ends of Seneca’s E. Main Street, new restaurants are about to take shape. They both have the support of the city board that has a say on architectural changes downtown. Ken and Garrett Myers left City Hall last night having received certificate approval for their plans to convert the existing building at 403 E. Main and turn it […]

Fire fighters near Seneca were on the go late last night to a home fire in the vicinity of the Bountyland Community and the Tanglewood development.  Shortly after 11:30 Rural Fire Control reported a fire at a home on L. Smith Drive in the vicinity of Dickard Road.  No one was hurt.  Fire fighters were on the scene until 2 […]

All Oconee farmers and local agri business people will eat free tonight on the grounds on the fair grounds off 123 between Seneca and Westminster.  This week’s South Carolina Foothills Heritage Fair hosts a dinner in appreciation of farmers and the agri business community who play a big role in the food everyone enjoys.  The dinner bell rings at 6 […]