Author: Dick Mangrum

A car accident late yesterday afternoon injured three people at the rural intersection of Coffee Road and Doyle Street.  Walhalla Fire Department does not believe those injuries are serious.

It was a point stressed yesterday by the board chairman, Brian Ramey of Westminster, the dollars required to treat the county’s piped wastewater is one thing.  As important are the men and women who work at the job.  And these days, like many other employers, Oconee’s Joint Regional Sewer Authority is having trouble attracting enough job applicants to do the […]

An agreed upon budget yesterday makes the business of sewer treatment in Oconee County in excess of $6 million a year.  The board of the Joint Regional Sewer Authority approved a new operations and maintenance budget projecting $6.7 million in revenues and $6.4 million in expenses.  The year-end surplus is anticipated to be nearly 330 and three-quarter thousand dollars.  A […]

A Greenville man was arrested over the weekend and charged in a domestic disturbance investigation near Walhalla.  According to the sheriff’s office, 24-year-old James Morrison Holland was located inside a vehicle at a traffic stop at the highway 11-28 interchange, after an officer received an adult female’s complaint at an address on Myrtlewood Drive near Walhalla.  Holland was charged with […]

This is the week seniors can take advantage of free produce coupons, a program from the state.  Handling the distribution in Oconee is the United Way, and the United Way’s LaShauna Harrison gives the following dates, times, and location:  Wednesday and Thursday, June 7 and 8 at Seneca’s Blue Ridge Community Center, the former public school building in Perry Hill […]

Changes are in the offing (starting July 3) in the way South Carolina’s criminal case dockets are developed.  It’s a directive handed down by the state’s highest court, the South Carolina Supreme Court in Columbia.  Lisa Burton, Oconee Clerk of Court, says the state’s clerks of court are to learn more in a meeting this week.  “There will be changes, […]

“I’ll buy dinner for anyone who wants it.”  That’s a comment attributed to the winner Friday of the Phoenix Bass Fishing League All-American Championship on Lake Hartwell.  Twenty-five-year-old Emil Wagner, bass fishing guide from Marietta, Georgia, sealed the deal with a 3-day total of 55 pounds, 11 ounces.  His margin of victory:  1 pound, 5 ounces.  Wagner earned $122,300,along with […]

Spartanburg resident Caleb Emmanuele Cohen became a drowning victim Saturday in Lake Keowee.  Authorities believe 35-year-old Cohen went into the water near High Falls County Park Saturday afternoon to help a child in distress, but he did not re-emerge.  At 8:45 Cohen’s body was located, and the coroner’s office notified.

An open door during the midnight hour Thursday in a Walhalla neighborhood raised the suspicions of a patrolling police officer.  And when the policeman saw the shadowy figure of a man through a window, the officer acted on his suspicions.  That resulted in the arrest of a 44-year old man, Bryan Ashley Evans, on multiple charges, including burglary second degree.  […]