Author: Dick Mangrum

A rare Thursday Westminster city council meeting at 6 tonight at city hall for what the city calls “personnel matters related to the potential Staff Organizational Structure of the City Organization.”  The special meeting is planned as an executive session, behind closed doors.

Investigators from the Criminal Investigations Bureau, working in partnership with agents from the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division Fugitive Task Force Unit, arrested a Westminster man today on three outstanding warrants on charges of False Information about a Bomb Threat.   43 year old Jeffrey Adam Holbert of Act Valley Trail was taken into custody around 2:52pm this afternoon at […]

The police in Seneca say a man walking back to his parked car in a parking lot was struck by a second vehicle that was backing up.  The man fell to the pavement, and required a trip to a Greenville hospital with what an officer reported was a head injury.  Capt. McClure said the injured man was “disoriented but conscious” […]

The police in Seneca are investigating an accident in downtown Seneca.  Apparently one person has been hit by vehicle.  The accident was reported at EN 1st and Cherry streets.

To gain spots on this November’s ballot, two Oconeeans will be required to gather signatures by petition.  One of them has already done that.  Bob Winchester seeks re-election in the General Election as one of five members of the county board of soil and water conservation.  Here’s a clarification:  A second incumbent board member, Carol Hendrix, is available to accept […]

A new convenience store that will sell gasoline near Seneca received approval this week for a zoning variance for stacked signs.  A Stop-A-Minit store, now under construction, intends to locate on the Sandifer Boulevard across 123 from Murphy’s gas in front of the Wal-Mart parking lot.  The Oconee Board of Appeals approved a variance for an increase of 93 square […]

              A court officer says Oconee General Sessions Court records are showing that a plea to burglary associated with the shooting death of an elderly Seneca woman three years ago has been vacated and dismissed.  It means that for a young man, Hunter Lee Hunnicutt, no additional prison time for his part in the death of Geraldine Castle March 7, […]

A roller coaster of a week.  That is how the president of the Oconee Chamber of Commerce describes major events impacting Oconee County.  Dari McBride says there’s exciting news of a groundbreaking for a new manufacturing outfit to be located inside the Industry and Technology Park on highway 11.  Over five years, a $30 million investment and 215 jobs.  Yet, […]