Author: Dick Mangrum

Clemson City Council proclamations are recognizing African American community members for their work in the community.  This is Black History Month.  Special attention goes to Robert Crooks, Rosa Grayden, and Karry Walker.  Crooks completed a 35-year career with the Clemson city police where he oversaw all investigations.  Every year, at no charge, he sponsors a July 4 fun day of […]

Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is announcing the first drug round-up of 2023 began this morning.   The Sheriff’s Office began the operation with a meeting and briefing yesterday at the Law Enforcement Center in Walhalla.   Here is that announcement: “The Sheriff’s Office obtained arrest warrants on 22 subjects.  The arrest warrants were obtained based on controlled purchases of narcotics […]

Your ancestors made meals and washed clothes without something that we today take for granted:  power.  And the story of South Carolina joining the electrification world to be told Saturday afternoon at the Oconee History Museum.  The author of a book on this will speak from 2 to 3 o’clock.

A DOT study determined that a Seneca intersection bound to see increased traffic with the opening of the city’s new middle school does not warrant, at least for now, traffic lights.  So, for the time being, Jamesway Court traffic and traffic exiting Cross Creek onto the Wells Highway will be required to come to a complete stop and not enter […]

Brandon Burton, Walhalla city administrator, says the city will again ask contractors to bid on re-configuring a short stretch of a downtown street.  The section of S. Catherine, between Main and S. Broad, has become a tight squeeze for motor vehicles.  One side of the street allows parallel parking.  But parked cars, along with a narrow two-way street, make for […]

In front of police officers in Royston, Georgia, a man shot and killed himself.  Georgia’s state police are investigating what happened yesterday afternoon at a home on Royston’s Cook Street.  At the request of a woman who made a 9-11 call, the police went there to see about the man’s behavior.  According to Lake Hartwell Radio WLHR, the police believed […]

Second-year Walhalla chief of police, Tim Rice, announced last night his goal is to achieve a rating of South Carolina’s safest city from crime.  In the latest rating by a group called Safewise, Walhalla moved up to third safest, even though the city saw a rare homicide last year.  Prior to 2022, Walhalla was the 9th safest South Carolina city.  […]