Author: Dick Mangrum

For Oconee taxpayers who’ve yet to satisfy their 2023 obligation, doing so will get more expensive after tomorrow.  Today is the last day to pay the tax bill before a “15% plus cost” late penalty goes into effect tomorrow.

A grant from the state Department of Health and Human Services includes funds for two Prisma Health Oconee projects at Seneca.  The grant amounts to $3.2 million and includes funds for the renovation of the Seneca Medical Associates building to allow for an additional two clinicians and funds to renovate Prisma Health Seneca Pediatrics to expand capacity from four to […]

Walhalla visitor Kylie Stackis is enthusiastic about the city’s accomplishments as a tree city, and a place that encourages its residents to plant a tree.  Trees were being given away today in an event on Main Street in the Tree City.  And Stackis of Trees Upstate complimented the local turnout and interest.  Mayor Tim Hall issued an April 26 Arbor […]

Defense lawyer David Plowden set out this morning for the Oconee Courthouse to opt out of a case in which he represents a man charged with multiple drug law violations, including some that have been linked to the “Las Senoritas” cases.  Plowden wanted to take advantage of a ruling that allows attorneys over the age of 65 to turn down […]

A man with ties to both Seneca and Clemson has been identified by the police as a man wanted on 23 warrants.  The Seneca police say it’s an investigation into identity fraud complaints in various South Carolina locations.  The wanted man is identified by the Seneca police as Shaqueal Volvo Verner.  And information can be directed to Investigator Terramano at […]

An Oconee pre-trial ruling this afternoon in a wrongful  death civil case that arose after a 2020 car accident that took three lives.  Common Pleas Judge McIntosh denied a defense motion to dismiss his client, 1698 Wells Highway Marathon LLC, but he wants discovery, the process of gathering information and evidence, to continue.  1698 is the limited liability company that […]

The full-time, cross-trained fire fighters in the city of Seneca, starting tomorrow, will no longer act as the primary response stations to emergencies in the Bountyland Community.  Announcement by Seneca Chief Richie Caudill says tomorrow is the day that the primary responders to Bountyland calls will be that community’s new county-operated fire station.  Caudill said, “Seneca Fire has protected this […]

The Oconee group of citizens that strives to ensure quality across the county is monitoring the potential for a new home development that has the potential of 1,900 homes along a two-lane SC 130 between Seneca and the nuclear plant.  The project has been referred to as the Keowee River Development, and AQD’s Gary Owens can be heard today on […]

At a time of high growth across Oconee, a citizens’ organization will again pursue development standards and further performance standards in the county. And Gary Owens, the president of AQD, Advocates for Quality Development, confirmed today that he and others will return to Oconee Planning Commission on Monday night.  Specifically, AQD will propose that the county make an RFP–request for […]