Author: Dick Mangrum

GE Aerospace and Clemson University at the Paris Air Show announced today they have received funds from the U-S Air Force Research Laboratory to continue to develop next generation materials that can withstand intense temperatures while flying at high speeds.  So far, the Air Force Research Lab has authorized $10 million in congressional-appropriated funding for the research.  The consortium, which […]

In spite of how deep the governor may make cuts in the next state budget, the General Assembly has decided against returning to Columbia.  In a memorandum yesterday and released today, Senate President Thomas Alexander said, “Today, the leadership of the House of Representatives and the Senate agreed that it is not necessary to return to session this week and […]

At 2 o’clock this afternoon, Governor McMaster announces his state budget vetoes.  A question going into his news conference is whether any Oconee County monies will be chopped.

With the moon on her mind, Clemson grad student Andrealuna Pizzetti will deliver a talk this weekend in Italy where she’ll discuss what the world, society and technology would look like if the moon were destroyed or had never formed.  Pizzetti will dive deep into the questions, using the knowledge she has gained from following her passion for the stars.  […]

The town of Salem receives a new municipal judge this evening.  Andrew Holliday is to take the oath of office to serve at the start of this evening’s 5 o’clock meeting of the town council.

An elderly Oconeean standing in front of the judge was told that potentially he could have been sentenced to 10 years in prison.  However, the case of sexual exploitation of a minor third degree was the first offense in the life of the defendant, Donald Alfred Slater Jr. A psychiatrist’s evaluation indicated 64-year old Slater is no threat to the […]

Announcement today of a fine dining, yet casual, restaurant for Main Street, Walhalla.  The location is Durham Hall, the building that Lana and Bruce Justus, renovated but have now sold to a pair of nearby Main Street entrepreneurs:  Alisaun and Mike Crenshaw.  To be called “The Southern Bull” – the restaurant is projected for an early 2024 opening and a […]

The testimony by a crime victim’s mother led-off the Oconee General Sessions trial – South Carolina vs. Tony Avella Sanders.  The defendant is charged with burglary third degree, petty larceny at a Walhalla-Westminster Highway property that the owner intended to renovate a house for living purposes.  In an opening statement to the jury, the prosecutor blamed Sanders and a second […]

Late this morning jury selection began at the Oconee Courthouse in SC vs. Tony Avella Sanders.  The Walhalla man was charged in 2021 with burglary third degree first offense in an incident on SC 183/the Walhalla-Westminster Highway, in which Sanders allegedly broke into a building belonging to Benny Paul Blackwell “without consent and with the intent to commit a crime,” […]