Author: Dick Mangrum

A 2019 graduate of Pendleton High School is the new State Secretary of the South Carolina FFA Association. Sydney Gambrell served as president of the Pendleton FFA chapter last year and received a state FFA degree during the convention. She recently returned from Washington where she attended a national summit of FFA officers. She’s the daughter of Matthew and Angela […]

A new way to ride to Clemson home football games has been approved to debut this season in Seneca.  Alley to the Valley will offer parking and tailgating from downtown Seneca and transportation to Memorial Stadium for Tiger games.  After meetings with city officials, Clemson gave its blessing to the initiative which will carry a requirement that Seneca join IPTAY.

A Saturday noon hour accident in Oconee County took the life of a 49-year old man. Coroner Karl Addis said James Brian Tharp died at the scene of a two-vehicle crash at 12:10 pm Saturday at Bountyland Road and Poplar Ridge Drive. Addis says the accident was a head-on collision. No other details were available this morning from the highway […]

Reward money has been increased in an effort to find out who took a truck and a lawnmower during burglary late last month in the Oconee County Keowee Community. Taken from an address on Dare Drive were a champagne-colored 1999 Toyota Tacoma, a Hustler zero-turn Fast Track riding mower, a “Wildgame” game camera model, and an Ultra Plus 32GB SanDisk […]

South Carolina DSS has detected the possibility that someone is fraudulently sending emails to induce the recipients to give out personal information. The tactic is called phishing, and the target appears to be recipients of “SNAP”—the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program—and “TANF”—the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. It’s believed these scammers threaten people with arrest. DSS has reported possible scams to […]

A veterinarian in Clemson has died from what the coroner says are complications from drowning.  Seneca resident Derek E. Lindsey died yesterday morning in the Greenville Memorial Hospital.  He was 47 years old.  Oconee Coroner Karl Addis says Lindsey, a Hillandale Road, Seneca resident, went swimming in Lake Keowee near his home last Saturday and was searching for missing sunglasses.  […]

The elected leaders of four Oconee municipalities are likely to understand why a “cMOM” audit is important to them, and why a state regulatory agency wants them conducted.  Seneca, Walhalla, Westminster, and West Union are being prodded by South Carolina DHEC to study the wastewater collection systems of each municipality.  It’s called a “cMOM” and stands for capacity, management, operations […]

Fire broke out in the engine section of an F-150 pickup truck traveling Snead Road near Walhalla. No one was hurt. The driver pulled to a stop after noticing something wrong. Walhalla Fire Department answered yesterday morning’s call.

An Oakway area woman arrested in January on sex charges was sent back to jail yesterday after a judge denied bond. The attorney for Edna Jean Sluder said her client had no previous record and would be a good candidate for house arrest. According to the Sheriff’s Office, the offenses against Sluder and a co-defendant are alleged to have occurred […]

One of two people arrested in a stabbing late last winter admitted his guilt yesterday in the Oconee courtroom and received a sentence that sends him to prison for five years. Deputy Solicitor Lindsey Simmons said Terry Dale Glauner pleaded guilty to charges of resisting arrest with assault and assault and battery first degree. Glauner and a second person were […]