Author: Dick Mangrum

An adaptive bicycle makes cycling easier for riders, whatever their individual needs.  And thanks to Walhalla Rotary Club fundraisers, three Oconee elementary schools, including Walhalla’s James Brown, will receive the special bikes.  In a presentation this Monday morning, attendees will include representatives of Rotary, the school district, and the Pedals Possible organization.

A sitting member of the board at the Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative, Franklin Looper, faces a re-election challenge.  At a nomination meeting this week, Pickens County BREC board member Looper and a newcomer, Jason Dennis, received enough votes to qualify them for the ballot during Blue Ridge’s annual membership meeting in April.  All Blue Ridge customers, no matter their county […]

If you missed that two-hour meeting last night in Clemson, there remain opportunities to register your comments on the draft of an environmental impact statement as part of the government’s process to re-license the Oconee Nuclear Station.  A webinar takes place Tuesday afternoon, February 27, participation at which is by computer or telephone.  And the NRC also accepts written comments.  […]

Early voting in front of Saturday’s primary finishes at the end of the day.  In Oconee County, the Pine Street election office will accept in-person balloting 8:30 this morning until 6 tonight.  Already, more than 4,300 Oconeeans have registered their choice for the GOP nomination for president.  The ballot also contains three advisory questions.  Meantime, absentee voting continues.  This all […]

The arrest Tuesday of an Oconee woman in Georgia, at the end of a police pursuit, originated in her home county near Westminster when an Oconee deputy stopped a dark-colored car on the W. Bennett Road. The county sheriff’s office has released details on why Cheyenne Nicole Collier was pursued.  The following account has been released:  “The driver of the […]

Oconee Sheriff’s Office has been told a Walhalla man released from jail has violated bond requirements, and his re-arrest is sought.  Deputies seek the public’s help to find Christopher Edward Burrell, following a tamper alert and the recovery of an ankle monitor at an address at Old House Road and S. Highway 11.  Burrell was jailed in August, charged with […]

A 35-year-old man who had been sought is reported in Oconee County custody.  Spokesman for Oconee Sheriff’s Office said Andrew Lee Bryson, accused of assault and battery by mob second degree, was taken into custody yesterday and jailed at Walhalla.  Bryson remained jailed yesterday afternoon, awaiting a bond hearing.