Author: Dick Mangrum

A crowd of an anticipated 110 Oconee Republicans made their way to the Lighthouse Event Center on Lake Keowee.  The April meeting of Oconee County Republican Men featured a salmon main course and a speaker’s dais of five members of the one-year-old South Carolina Freedom Caucus.  It’s a group of conservative state representatives who are out to shake up the […]

A Walhalla High fine arts production will be staged next weekend as part of a two-night run in the school auditorium.  It’s the school music theatre’s version of “Disenchanted” at 7 o’clock each night Friday, May 5 and Saturday, May 6.  Advance tickets are $10 dollars online and can also be purchased at the door each night for $15 dollars.  […]

Photographs taken and the memories brought back are telling the story of a trip to New York City by 37 Seneca High School chorus students.  Accompanied by 17 adults, the Seneca chorus performed April 16 at Carnegie Hall.  Conducted by Dr. Allyss Haecker, they sang three songs and received a standing ovation after having been part of eight hours of […]

After two days of balloting, Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative announced the results of a two-way contest for an open Anderson county seat on its board of directors.  The ballot count added up to victory for Will Anderson, a row crop farmer.  Anderson tallied 4,296 votes; his competitor, Paul Brown, the long time news media broadcaster and photojournalist, received 2,564 votes.  […]

Both sides in the week-long Oconee civil court trial rested their cases last evening.  The proceedings resume at 9:30 this morning at the courthouse with closing arguments and the judge’s explanation of the law.  Then the jurors will retire to their private room to deliberate a verdict.  After the sale of 123 Seneca ByPass business property, the buyer filed a […]

By late morning, the plaintiff had called four witnesses to further make its case for damages as the result of a property deal in Seneca.  Unlike the early stages of the Common Pleas trial, the four witnesses this morning were on the stand for only a short time.  One of the four, real estate broker Terri Anderson was a recall […]

No surprise.  Because of the heavy rains of today, there will be NO Jazz on the Alley this evening at Seneca.

The Tamassee school founded more than 100 years ago by the DAR—Daughters of the American Revolution—has entered civil court action against the Missouri State Society, DAR.  The complaint outlines, among others, grounds for conversion and breach of fiduciary duty and seeks damages.  Alleged in the complaint, filed for Tamassee DAR School by Seneca attorney Andrew Holliday, is “unjust enrichment” by […]

A small film maker chose an iconic Seneca location for a scene this week of a movie that’s to receive Amazon distribution.  Ken Vickery, whose family operated, perhaps, the last full-service gas station in the area, confirms that Vickery’s former Texaco was used as the scene for the opening shot of “On the Run” – a flick that will have […]

The Associated Press wire service calls the House approval of a fiscal responsibility bill a razor-thin margin.  The 3rd District’s representative, Republican Jeff Duncan, announced he was on the side of the majority in the 217-215 vote in favor “Limit, Save, Grove” — the best way, Duncan says, to shrink what the federal government spends.  Duncan fears if status quo […]