Author: Dick Mangrum

Oconee Joint Regional Sewer Authority would like comment for the potential of the Fair Play/Townville Area Sewer Basin.  The latest phase of the project is gathering information, and the JRSA’s Chris Eleazer says people may go to www.ojrsa.org/resources and access info about the study by selecting the link to “Sewer Basin Public Survey”.  You can take an online survey below […]

Fire broke out in a home near Westminster.  Fire fighters were sent around 7 last night to an address on the Miller Farm Road.  No one reported hurt.  There’s word this morning that two boys are OK after they became temporarily stranded in their kayak yesterday afternoon on Lake Jocassee.  The difficulty for the 12 and 14-year old boys came […]

The Oconee Sheriff’s Office announcement: “The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office has made an arrest in the homicide of Nancy Popham.   Deputies were dispatched to a residence located at 119 Country Kin Rd., Seneca SC on July 4, 2022 at 4:24PM for a cardiac arrest. Upon their arrival Deputies located a 67 year female, Nancy Popham, deceased at the residence. […]

Here is the announcement from Pickens County Sheriff’s Office: “At approximately 9:15 PM on July 7th, 2022, while investigating a report of an unusual odor, deputies with the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office located the body of what appears to be an adult male in the 3100 block of Pumpkintown Hwy, roughly 8/10 of a mile from the home of Francis […]

A stolen F-350 Platinum pickup truck is the object of an Oconee Sheriff’s Office investigation.  The truck belonging to Edwards Auto Sales carried a sticker value of $83,270 and was reported stolen from the lot during the night of June 21-22.  A sheriff’s deputy requested that his office enter the vehicle into the NCIC—the National Crime Information Center.

  The police in Seneca arrested a 34-year old woman last evening in their investigation of a car hijacking in which the suspect hit the owner and stole his car.  That car, which displayed a South Dakota license plate, was found behind the home of the woman arrested.  Law enforcement records show a charge of carjacking without great bodily injury […]

  A newly re-named assistance program could be the solution to pressing waterline projects in West Union.  The town council this morning met in workshop with members of the Rosier Group of Easley.  Troy Rosier started the get together by reminding the mayor and the four-member council of the small Oconee town of the millions of dollars available through “ARPA”—the […]

Coroner Karl Addis provides this account of a new Oconee County homicide: “A 67-year-old Seneca woman was found dead in her home on Monday afternoon, July 4, 2022. Nancy Popham, 67, of Country Kin Road, Seneca, was found dead shortly after 4 pm Monday by a family member. Ms. Popham is believed to have died late Sunday night or early […]

A government agency has authorized a new residential marina on Lake Keowee at the Seneca end of the lake near the 123 By-Pass.  Approval by “FERC”—the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission—comes on an application by Duke Energy on behalf of Kensington Estates.  The marina project, covering about one-half acre of land and water, is classified under the shoreline management plan for […]