Author: Dick Mangrum

More than 1,000 students are set for bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees this week in Clemson University graduation ceremonies.  Doctoral hooding takes place at 3 o’clock Thursday afternoon in the Brooks Center; commencement for bachelor’s and master’s degree candidates is scheduled for 9 am and 11 am Friday in Littlejohn Coliseum.  Doors open two hours prior to ceremonies. The ceremonies […]

Oconee’s chief recruiter for economic development, Jamie Gilbert, can now arm himself with financial information requested by a top valued prospect for the county’s Golden Corner Commerce Park at Fair Play.  A vote yesterday by the board of the Joint Regional Sewer Authority sets the charge that would be made for sewer service should a developer decide to locate in […]

A couple of Walhalla trees were downed in yesterday’s storm.  The worst incident was late last night, after the storm passed, when a branch from a tree fell on a car parked on Walhalla’s Cedar Street.

An outside grant is the funding mechanism for a $1 million project to replace the leaky Flat Rock sewer pump station near Walhalla.  The county sewer commissioners yesterday approved a $1.2 million contract to a one-year old company, Cove Utilities.  The principals of Cove Utilities left a larger company to form their own business.  Besides leaks, the existing pump station […]

A hearing tonight in Seneca.  At city council’s 6 o’clock meeting at city hall, the public may comment on and ask questions about an ordinance to close and abandon right-of-way, transfer real property of the city, and other matters.  Tonight’s meeting will follow an agenda and serve as Seneca’s August city council meeting.

It’s likely again that Oconee’s public school enrollment will sort out in the vicinity of 10 thousand students.  Yesterday’s count was 9,965 students across the district; 239 were marked absent.  Adding those two numbers you get 10,204.

The police in Westminster arrested a 22-year old Oconeean in the investigation of a home burglary.  Law enforcement records yesterday showed Austin Lee Goins of Shook Road, Seneca arrested and charged with petty larceny and first degree burglary.  Goins is accused of stealing jewelry, including a man’s wedding ring, from a home on McNair Drive, Westminster July 21.

A 15-year old Anderson boy lost his life around 5 pm yesterday during the severe storm that struck his area.  Evan Chrstopher Kinley, a sophomore at T-L Hanna High School, died of multiple trauma injuries when a tree fell on a garage.  The boy was found beneath the large tree.  According to the coroner’s office, investigation reveals the victim arrived […]

Governor Henry McMaster attends the funeral this morning at Easley’s Rock Springs Baptist Church for Easley policeman Matthew Hare, killed last week when hit by a train while attempting to rescue an individual.