Author: Dick Mangrum

Highway troopers believe sun in the eyes of one driver led to an Oconee County accident this morning — the first in a series of accidents.  Three others occurred within moments on the two-lane W. Cherry Road on the bridge between Oconee and Pickens.  According to trooper Ridgeway, two people in the first accident sustained minor injuries.  At morning rush, […]

Having been re-instated, Matthew Durham is eligible to return next week to his District Two seat in the chambers of Oconee County Council.  A regular meeting is on the horizon, for Tuesday night in Walhalla.  And there’s talk that Durham is apt to be voted chairman, with the help of his colleagues Hart and Mize.  John Elliott has remained in […]

Those who are anxious to find out what might be in store for large picturesque acreage near Seneca have been checking county property transactions.  They want to know if the talk is correct that 148-acres belonging to the Thornwell Home for Children in Clinton will close in a property deal by the end of this week.  (Our earlier post incorrectly […]

The Biden administration’s plan to urge Americans to buy electric vehicles is seen by the 3rd District representative to congress, Jeff Duncan, as radical and would price middle-and-lower income families out of the market.  Duncan’s comments on new vehicle pollution standards of the EPA are contained in an announcement by Duncan in his capacity as chairman of the Energy, Climate […]

Oconee County and South Carolina DOT are the defendants in a lawsuit this week in the Common Pleas Court.  Oconee or the DOT, or both, are being blamed for conditions that led to a 2021 two-vehicle accident which the complaint says caused a violent collision that grievously hurt a passenger, Jimmie Lee Brown.  The accident was reported at highway 76 […]

The Biden-Harris “Investing in America” tour makes a $51 million announcement today in Union, South Carolina.  The Federal Highway administrator, Shailen Bhatt, will be there to announce the grant to improve the safety and reliability of rural South Carolina bridges.  The funds result from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bridge Investment Program.  The announcement also calls attention to an award of $3.9 […]

Tri-County Technical College at Pendleton and Lander University at Greenwood have a new relationship.  A new transfer partnership will allow Tech students to easily transfer their credits to an equivalent baccalaureate program at Lander, entering as juniors.

Around 3:15 in the morning April 13, 2020, you’ll remember the weather, if you happened to be in the line for an EF3 tornado at Seneca and surrounding parts.  A manufacturing plant guard was killed, and the winds brought devastating damage to homes and businesses, let alone tree top casualties.

West Union Town Council has taken a position in favor of “The Clementa C. Pinckney Hate Crimes Act.”  It’s a response to the racial-inspired shooting deaths several years ago at a Charleston church.  A motion, followed by a 3-0 vote, puts the West Union elected leaders on record as urging the governor and the state’s lawmakers to approve H. 3014.