Author: Dick Mangrum

  Duke Energy faces a deadline sometime before midnight to make a filing with state government in Columbia.  What’s called direct testimony is due to be filed with the Public Service Commission which has scheduled a September 26 hearing.  Fuel costs reflect the cost of fuel transportation, and the costs related to the power that electric utilities buy from other […]

You can make a difference and serve your community by working as a poll manager in the November General Election in Oconee County.  By taking the training working as a poll manager, you can earn $135 dollars for one day’s work on Election Day.  To apply online, visit oconeesc.com/voter-registration-and-elections.

A Tri-County Tech student will collect her diploma this week, just one year after suffering a stroke.  Benita Chester is looking forward to walking across the stage Thursday to receive her Licensed Practical Nuring (LPN) degree at summer commencement.  On June 26, 2022, while stopped in Anderson traffic on the way to visit her mother in a nursing home, 38-year […]

Kenny Johns, candidate in Walhalla’s special November election for a city council seat, admits he had considered offering for mayor in the regular upcoming election.  But he believes it’s time for someone new to be the next mayor, and he thinks Tim Hall III “would make an excellent mayor.”  There’s talk that Hall, former county councilman and former diplomat with […]

A meeting next week of the leaders of Oconee County Republicans is designed to settle a question of whether to invite the county council for a town hall question-answer meeting.  Jim Mann, county GOP chairman, announces he’s calling a Zoom meeting of the party executive committee for August 7 to re-consider the invitation question and vote to send the invitation […]

A 54-year old Oconee man has been arrested on charges arising from shots fired last weekend in a neighborhood of Foxwood Hills near Lake Hartwell.  Arrest records show charges of use of firearm under the influence and breach of peace aggravated in nature.  Deputies responded to an address early Saturday on Minden Way and arrested Raymond McKinley Werts Jr.  

The daughter of a Walhalla councilman made it a two-way contest for a city council seat, by qualifying before today’s noon hour deadline.  The second candidate is Abigail Keehn of N. Poplar Street, daughter of first-term Councilman Grant Keehn.  Her qualifying means that, in the special election on General Election Day in November, Abigail Keehn will face Kenny Johns, a […]

An attempt at defrauding an Oconee County business was blocked when an alert manager realized something was wrong.  A county deputy took a report from a business phoned from two different numbers.  The callers claimed a check from the business bounced and requested $2,600 cash be placed into a bitcoin machine.  A worker there started to do just that, but […]

The summer construction project for a new Alumni and Visitors Center at Clemson University near Lake Hartwell poses hazards for those walking or running in that area.  For public safety reasons, pedestrian access gates to the dike near Lake Drive (between the Madren Center and the Rowing Facility) will be locked starting tomorrow, until construction work is finished.  The targeted […]