Author: Dick Mangrum

Rising junior and senior high school students in South Carolina are invited to apply for a teen academy of the Columbia field office of the FBI.  The two-day academy, June 26 and 27, at FBI headquarters in the capital city is designed for high school age students to learn about the country’s top domestic police agency, as well as crimes […]

Chairman Matthew Durham of Oconee County Council has arranged a town hall meeting at 6 tonight at the American Legion Hall in Walhalla.  The get together will follow the following format:  Durham, the District Two councilman, gives a brief presentation on where Oconee government has been, where it is now, and where it’s going.  Then, the meeting will open to […]

South Carolina’s presidential preference primaries are history.  Next up on the election calendar are the state’s Democratic and Republican primary elections June 11.  They are held to allow the two political parties to decide their nominees for the November General Election ballot.  Oconeeans interested in qualifying as primary election candidates for any one of the various available offices should file […]

The Governors Highway Safety Association has released its latest stats on fatal traffic accidents involving pedestrians.  Between January and June 2023, U-S drivers hit and killed 3,373 people on foot — an average of 18 deaths a day.  2024 is not yet two months finished, yet Oconee County has seen two pedestrian traffic deaths, according to Coroner Karl Addis.  One […]

Clemson University says its astrophysicist, Dieter Hartmann, was part of an international team of astronomers that obtained observational evidence of rare heavy elements in the aftermath of a cataclysmic explosion triggered by the merger of two neutron stars.  It was a massive explosion, says Clemson, that unleased a gamma-ray burst.  The team used ground-based telescopes, including NASA’s James Webb Space […]

Election officials and poll workers in Georgia now must think about protecting themselves from fentanyl.  After a fentanyl-laced letter sent to Fulton County election officials, election personnel across Georgia have trained on the use of Narcan — in the event a voter overdoses while waiting to vote.  There’s also the threat of poll workers possibly handling fentanyl-laced absentee ballots and […]

A late night investigation by Oconee sheriff’s officers produced a pair of weekend arrests in the parking lot of a rural retail store.  The sheriff’s office announces charges against Crystal Dewyna Baker and Kevin Eugene Jackson after a deputy became suspicious of a car parked by the side of the Dollar General on the Ebenezer Road.  The charges against 44-year-old […]

A prosecutor in Anderson, Danny Fulmer, announces his intent to make the race this year for the 10th Circuit Solicitor — Oconee and Anderson counties. Fulmer’s announcement describes him as a conservative Republican and says he is the only candidate in the race who has put criminals behind bars in Anderson County.  As to his philosophy, Fulmer is described as […]

Three Oconee elementary schools are receiving the donation of adaptive bicycles.  They make cycling easier, whatever the rider’s individual needs.  The first presentation, made possible by the Walhalla Rotary Club, took place this morning at the James Brown Elementary School.  Dr. Michael Thorsland, district superintendent and a Rotarian, gave credit to fellow Rotarian (and county school trustee) Meghan Ketterman for […]