Author: Dick Mangrum

Bystanders early last night pulled one person out of the fiery wreckage of a vehicle on the Salem side of the Burnt Tanyard bridge. The injured is said to have suffered minor burns and traumatic injuries. Multiple public safety responders assisted in helping create a landing zone for a helicopter to transport the injured individual for medical care.

A late night home fire near Walhalla has left part of a Kenneth Street home damaged.  No one has been hurt, although two people have been displaced.  Smoke inhalation killed several pets, others are being nursed by the family.  Chief Brandon Burton of the fire department said, “We urge people to have working smoke detectors, escape plans, and to be […]

The Seneca police believe a 48-year old woman from Newberry County is responsible for crimes early yesterday morning downtown. A police officer discovered broken glass on a Ramcat Alley side door entrance to the Morgan Law Building. Investigation showed the intruder rummaged the inside. A stolen fire extinguisher was found at the back of another Ramcat Alley business. According to […]

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 […]