Author: Dick Mangrum

A new candidacy has emerged for the November 7 General Election.  Lisa Wilson is running for a town council seat in West Union, according to Oconee election officials.

A unanimous vote by an advisory Seneca board, the city planning commission, rejects a zoning classification that would have allowed property along Dalton Road for multi-family housing units.  A number of residents of single-family homes in the vicinity of Dalton and WS 4th Street opposed Moses and Malkot’s request last night for an RM-16 zone.  Unless the city council sees […]

Soup kitchens and Seneca’s homeless shelter notwithstanding, what is available locally to address Oconee’s increasing problem of homelessness?  The question reverberated last night during the Oconee Municipal Association meeting.  A website has been created to assist people in need:  oconeemyresourceguide.org.  Deputy Chief Mike Carroll of Prisma Health Oconee Memorial oversees                                                the resource.  As pointed out by Lt. Crompton of the […]

Oconee Sheriff’s Office and Christ Central Ministries are in talks to start a new program that’ll allow some drug or alcohol addicted individuals to avoid jail and send them straight into the 30-day rehabilitation program of “OARS” – Oconee Addiction and Recovery and Solutions.  It could start as early as October 1.  For varied reasons, Sheriff Crenshaw approves – considering […]

Business professionals needed to judge high school career competition Walhalla, SC – The Region 1 DECA Competition will be held November 7th at Walhalla High School. High schools and Career Centers from around the upstate will travel to WHS to participate in the role play based career competition. Students will be competing in the 15 events: Accounting Applications Apparel and […]

With help from a Friendship fire fighter, Oconee Sheriff’s Office arrested a 32-year old Seneca man accused of setting fire to brush and trash on N. Strawberry Farm Road Sunday afternoon.  Law enforcement records identify the arrested man as Dawson Monroe Addis and charge against him as willfully burning lands of another.”  According to the sheriff’s office, Friendship fire personnel […]

Soup kitchens and Seneca’s homeless shelter notwithstanding, what is available locally to address Oconee’s increasing problem of homelessness?  The question reverberated last night during the Oconee Municipal Association meeting.  A website has been created to assist people in need: https://oconee.myresourceguide.org/resources. Deputy Chief Mike Carroll of Prisma Health Oconee Memorial oversees the resource.  As pointed out by Lt. Crompton of the […]

The office of Anderson County coroner has identified an elderly West Union man the fatal victim in a head-on crash yesterday afternoon at Pendleton.  Joseph E. Stewart, Jr., died at 4:50 pm at Prisma Health, Greenville after being life-flighted and treated at the scene of the two-vehicle accident near Tri-County Technical College.  The coroner’s office gave the following account:  “The […]

Oconee municipal leaders and guests learned during a meeting last night of a recent spike in the numbers of homeless throughout the county.  Executive Director Tim Gordon of Our Daily Rest quoted a United States HUD estimate of 84 homeless individuals in January this year; however, sheriff’s lieutenant Tommy Crompton estimates “more than 300” currently, though he concedes it’s a […]