Author: Dick Mangrum

In open session, Westminster City Council addressed the issue of an offer to purchase the operations from which the city derives its electric power supply.  There’s division within the board of the Piedmont Municipal Agency as to whether the offer should be accepted.  Westminster favors selling, according to Brian Ramey.  Other members of the Upstate municipal consortium are opposed.  A […]

This evening at Walhalla’s St. Luke Methodist Church, it’ll be another day for free food.  From 4:30 to 5:30 pm the following items will be dispensed from the pantry of the E. Main Street church:  boxes of packaged food, along with fresh fruit, vegetable, and fish.

Three tables in front of the seated positions of Seneca’s eight-member city council were filled with donated toys and other gifts to go to some of the local area’s neediest children.  That helped create a Christmas mood for the council’s last meeting of the calendar year.  And Mayor Dan Alexander departed from the printed agenda to personally hand out certificates […]

A 23-year old man at Seneca was jailed Monday night, charged with cruelty to children.  The police reported the arrest of Joshua Grant Stokes after officers conducted a welfare check November 30 at an apartment and, at first, no one answered the door, although they heard a baby crying.  The arrest warrants allege Stokes placed a child at an unreasonable […]

Seneca native Christi Roberts is the new assistant principal at the city’s middle school.  Her hiring was OK’d Monday night by the county board of school trustees.  For the last five years, Roberts has worked as a guidance counselor at the school.

A matter of potential concern for property owners within five miles of the Seneca corporate limits reared itself following a closed-door meeting last night at city hall.  All hands flew up on a motion to notify Oconee County that Seneca will not renew an inter-government agreement that provides fire protection and first response services covering a radius of five miles […]

Governor Henry McMaster notified Mayor Brian Ramey the City of Westminster was selected to receive $250,000 in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds from the State of South Carolina’s Special Projects Program. The grant will fund renovations to and an expansion of W. P. Anderson Park located on W. North Avenue in Westminster. Vacant City property adjacent to W. P. […]