Author: Dick Mangrum

Two Oconee County elementary schools are among 50 in the state that’ll celebrate “STEM” Education Month in a special way.  Walhalla’s James Brown Elementary and Seneca’s Blue Ridge Elementary are among selected school s to host fun, hands-on science events for students and their families. According to Clemson University, making this possible is a partnership among Duke Energy, South Carolina’s […]

Clemson University believes it has begun a new era to help steward South Carolina’s natural resources.  Ground was broken Friday for a new home for the university’s Department of Forestry and Environmental Conservation.  The building at Cherry and Perimeter roads is to contain 85 thousand square feet and be ready in 2026.  According to the state Forestry Commission, forestry generates […]

A Georgia motorcyclist was killed yesterday morning in a crash in Anderson County on highway 29.  Coroner Greg Shore said the victim was Bowman, Georgia resident Austin Mykal Bestwick.  The coroner’s announcement states that 26-year-old Bestwick apparently lost control of the motorcycle and was ejected.  Speed, the coroner says, was a major factor.

A Pickens man lost his life in a home fire yesterday at 307 Mile Creek Road.  The coroner’s office identifies the victim as Robert Dwayne O’Bryant.  The cause and manner of the fire remained under investigation by the coroner’s office, the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office, and the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division.

The League of Women Voters of Oconee and Pickens counties calls attention to the guest speaker that it has lined up for a program next week in Clemson.  The public is cordially invited to hear Adam Colette of Dogwood Alliance, a non-profit that promotes forest protection as the best solution to climate change.  Colette’s talk at 7 Tuesday night, March […]

Among multiple South Carolina projects to be funded in a fiscal year 2024 federal spending package are funds to modernize the I-85 interchange in Anderson County.  The approved $5 million for that project was a request Graham made to the Senate Appropriations Committee.  A Graham spokeswoman says the work is to be done at I-85 and U-S 178, interstate exit […]

The agenda is set for West Union’s March meeting of town council.  Tomorow’s meeting at town hall starts at 5:45 with a public hearing.  Among agenda items tomorrow are ordinances on open containers, drug house as a business, and loitering and prowling within the corporate limits.

“Very well qualified” is how Jody Gaulin describes Jessica Hartshorn.  At Saturday’s convention of Oconee Democrats, Gaulin helped lead a petition drive to qualify Jessica Hartshorn, forestry professor at Clemson, as a ballot candidate this year for a seat on the county board for soil and water conservation.