Author: Dick Mangrum

South Carolina DHEC says Pioneer Rural Water customers are noticing an “earthy” taste and smell in water produced by Pioneer’s new plant. But Terry Pruitt, the Pioneer manager, says test results show the water continues to be safe to consume and, so far, complaints have been voiced by only three percent of the customer base. Said Pruitt today: “DHEC did […]

Democrats want a sit down with Majority Leader McConnell to talk about guns.  And South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham talked guns as he made an appearance today at an event in Seneca.  “There are just some people out there who are crazy, disturbed, and we need to get them help and get the guns out of their hands before they do […]

“This is the future.” That is how Senator Lindsey Graham today described what Seneca’s Borg Warner plant is doing to avail its employees of free health screenings and wellness services. Graham cut a ribbon that opened Borg Warner’s health and wellness facility, a move he believes that’ll help position the plant to hire some of the best from the available […]

The investigation of a suspicious person complaint yesterday in West Union led sheriff’s officers to E. Railroad Street where they encountered a man walking alongside the railroad track. Their investigation led to charges of giving false information and possession of methamphetamine against Christian Alexander Durecki. According to the Sheriff’s Office, officers found nearly one-half of a gram of meth in […]

A stray Labrador retriever rescued by the Oconee Sheriff’s Office is in need of a loving home.  “Lucky” is the five-year old lab who strayed from Walhalla.  When rescued August 4, Lucky was diagnosed with sarcoptic mange, but is getting treatment and within the next three weeks should be cured and no longer contagious.  If you or anyone you know […]

For the purchase of a former manufacturing building and its re-modeling into the hub of city industrial park, Seneca moved yesterday to re-structure a bank loan. The city’s Facilities Corporation took action during its annual meeting yesterday at City Hall. The corporation approved City Administrator Scott Moulder’s recommendation to pursue re-financing. The current lender is the TD Bank. Two loans […]

A contract worth $745 thousand has been awarded to J-Davis Construction to build the new Vangeli’s restaurant on Seneca’s Ramcat Alley. The job was authorized during the annual meeting yesterday of the Seneca Improvements Corporation, on a recommendation by Scott Moulder, corporation president and city administrator. J-Davis’s bid was the highest of three received, but Moulder said the state licenses […]

Summer recess ends Monday for Oconee public school students, and the district superintendent says between 800 and 850 teachers will be ready to help turn minds into the task of learning for a new year.  With the return of the yellow school buses countywide, along with general school traffic, the general public is reminded to be careful around bus stops, […]

A young Seneca man remained jailed today on the charge that he was the one who pulled off a burglary this month at the Fishing Hole store near Lake Hartwell. William Kyle Melvin was jailed today under a surety bond of $60 thousand to cover the charge of burglary second degree, petty larceny, and malicious injury to real property. Meantime, […]