Author: Dick Mangrum

A Clemson student major from Aiken, Erin Jones, is one of a number of students that the university is pointing to as offering promise for the future.  She is majoring in genetics and minoring in bio-chemistry and women’s leadership.  Her research in James Morris’s lab focuses on developing tools for drug discovery in the pathogenic amoeba Naegleria fowleri.  Outside the […]

It will be the meeting that Brian Ramey of Westminster has yearned for.  At the end of next week, a joint get together is planned involving the Oconee County Council and the Joint Regional Sewer Authority.  It will be 11 o’clock Friday morning, May 5 in the county council chambers in Walhalla. Ramey, JRSA board chairman, has said conferring with […]

The offices of the Oconee Sheriff and the county public schools are asking parents to turn out for anyone of a series of important meetings over the next week for information about vaping and social media and how they affect their children.  The first meeting is 6 o’clock tonight at West-0ak High School.  The meetings are for parents only; however, […]

Pet owners can pick up dog and cat food today from 10 to 5 at the shelter near Seneca at 1925 Sandifer Boulevard.  According to the Oconee Humane Society, the free pet food is courtesy of the Golden Corner Food Pantry.  If supplies last, they’ll distribute again tomorrow.

Defendant and real estate broker Larry Hoeben continued to answer plaintiff’s lawyer questions this afternoon in day one of an Oconee civil court trial.  4105 Liberty Highway Llc vs. Redlands Properties Llc and others is a breach of contract dispute over the sale and condition of 123 Bypass property that changed hands in 2017.  Many of the questions of Hoeben […]

A gunshot wound has taken the life of a Pendleton man in Pickens County.  Coroner Kandy Kelley announces the death on Saturday of Wyatt Short, 22-year old resident of Elm Street, Pendleton.  The shooting location:  Sheriff Circle, Liberty.  Pickens County sheriff’s officers are investigating.

Oconee Common Pleas Court appears to be ready for the start of a lengthy trial.  By 10 this morning, clerk staff had started a roll call of a pool of some 75-80 jurors–from which a jury panel is to be selected for 4105 Liberty Highway vs. Redland Properties and others.  Court documents show it’s a case of alleged breach of […]

Data gathered and analyzed by Matthew Durham indicate, in the view of  Oconee’s new council chairman, show county appropriations since 2016 have grown at an alarming rate.  Sustainable budgeting practices are what are needed, Durham writes in his latest newsletter.  Durham says, “The county administrator’s initial recommended budget for FY 23/24 was $67,072,222.  During the Finance Committee meeting last Tuesday […]