Author: Dick Mangrum

Today’s agenda for Oconee’s Commission on Parks, Recreation and Tourism indicates there could be votes on as many as 13 separate applications for grant funds.  Interests representing the county and its three largest municipalities are among the applicants who go before the seven-member group which dispenses monies to advance local tourism efforts and attractions.  Today’s meeting is set for the […]

Senator Lindsey Graham was part of a bi-partisan, bicameral delegation that met with the president of Egypt.  About the meeting with Egypt’s Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, the South Carolina Republican said, “Egypt has long been a strategic partner to the United States and has benefitted from its peace treaty with the State of Israel.  Looking forward, I was pleased to hear […]

A North Carolina couple have been arrested in Oconee County, in an incident in which the sheriff’s office discovered of two people inside a church building — there without the authorization of the church.  The two people were charged with utilities theft of electric current and third degree burglary after a sheriff’s sergeant found them on Monday inside a building […]

Flushing water mains improve water quality by removing sediment that slowly builds up at the bottom of the main over time.  It’s why the utilities department of the city of Clemson on Friday will flush the water mains, generally, for most neighborhoods, between 12 am and 5 am.  Water is sometimes discolored after water main cleaning, but the city says […]

Seneca’s utilities director couched his language when replying to a councilman’s question about the size of the city’s reserve electric transformers — which would be tapped if there were ever a disaster, such as the 2020 EF3 tornado that hit Seneca.  Bob Faires, utilities director, says the problem of adequate reserves of transformers is not just a Seneca problem, it’s […]

Mayor Dan Alexander of Seneca welcomed two Oconee County officials to last night’s city hall meetings, and then invited them to join the city council as it again in closed session addressed the matter of a new fire contract with the county.  So into the council’s private meeting room went Matthew Durham, the county council chairman, and Don Mize, Seneca’s […]

Governor McMaster has placed South Carolina under a state of emergency to prepare for the effects of Idalia, and he requests South Carolinians monitor local forecasts and start to take proper precautions. Here are the words of the governor:  “Although South Carolina may avoid the worst of Hurricane Idalia’s impacts, this State of Emergency is issued out of an abundance […]