Author: Dick Mangrum

If you can’t pay your tax bill, do not delay filing your return. Filing on time will reduce the amount of penalty and interest you will owe, which is based on the amount of tax not paid by the due date. If you can’t pay the full amount, pay what you can by the filing deadline. Your balance can accrue […]

  From an airplane, researchers from Clemson and Harvard saw miles of forest trees that looked like matchsticks after a category 5 hurricane.  But they when they got into the forests on the West Indies island of Dominica they were surprised that the category 5 killed only 10% of the damaged trees.  Many of the trees had respouted nine months […]

A lawsuit alleging negligence against the Pickens County sheriff is laid out in a filing at the end of March in the Pickens County Court of Common Pleas.  The complaint is titled, Deborah Couch as the personal representative for the estate of Zane Kevin Marcus vs. Rick Clark, in his official capacity as Pickens County sheriff.  Plaintiff’s attorney is listed […]

The Tri-County Technical College Commission voted unanimously (April 10) to freeze in-county tuition for a fourth consecutive year. The in-county tuition freeze applies to the 2023-2024 academic year.   “Making college accessible and affordable to all citizens in the tri-county region is our priority,” said TCTC President Dr. Galen DeHay. “In addition to a steady tuition rate, Tri-County offers financial […]

  About 500 bridges are part of the state’s plan to replace or refurbish, but a major span connecting Oconee and Pickens at Clemson is not one of them.  A spokeswoman for the DOT says the agency has no immediate plans to make any kinds of significant repairs to the Clemson 76/123 bridge over the Seneca River arm of Lake […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is happy to report that Michele Elizabeth Elgin, who was the subject of a Missing Person’s news release last Friday evening, has been located and is safe.

The timing for the lights to change at a set of planned new traffic lights at Clemson has been raised as an issue with the city.  The location for the new signals is Cherry Road and Old Stone Church Road.  Here’s the question posed during last month’s Conversation with Council devent:  “It appears that the new traffic signal going in […]

Here’s a letter on behalf of those who sought to develop Sanctuary Pointe in Oconee County     “To the Residents of Oconee County, SC   On Friday, March 3rd at 3:30 pm Sanctuary Pointe LLC (SPLLC), the sub-leaseholder to the 325-acre property on Lake Hartwell at Exit 1, received an email from the SC Parks, Recreation and Tourism’s attorney […]