Author: Dick Mangrum

A large swath of the West Union area lost electric power service last night for about 90 minutes after a transformer and, apparently, a couple of power lines fell to the ground at 1421 W. Main Street.  Public safety responders were alerted just after 9:15.  A few minutes later, fire was discovered in a home on Westminster’s Wood Street, requiring […]

  Unusual events this week inside the Oconee County courtroom in Walhalla.  On Wednesday, a defendant who entered the courtroom, wearing a mask, was excused after his attorney told the judge that his client had COVID-19.  Yesterday afternoon, emotions ran high as family members on both side of a criminal case traded accusatory remarks.  After Judge McIntosh ruled on pre-trial […]

A circuit judge lowered the bond this afternoon of a Seneca man, accused by the state of multiple sex offenses.  Judge McIntosh in the Oconee General Sessions Court lowered to $250 thousand dollars the bond which defendant Trey Jerell Frasier would be required to meet before he can leave jail.  McIntosh acted on motions by Frasier’s defense attorney, Colie Stancil, […]

The numbers added up this week for the town of Salem.  At town hall, Marti Jennings tells us Salem has a 2022-23 budget, following a hearing this week in which no one from the public had anything to say.  Revenue and expenses figures match—$2.1 million.  The town council holds the line on property taxes, but will raise the base rate […]

If this announcement came from a large milk producer and the headline read ‘milk shortage leads to 2-day supply in local grocery stores,’ people would most likely rush to the nearest store to buy milk, creating long lines and a sense of panic. After all, milk is a staple item in most everyone’s fridge – but if push came to […]

On another end of Seneca, the large homebuilder D-R Horton is finishing another town house project—Townhomes at Oakmont.  Yesterday John Richardson of the real estate group Forestar indicated that his company is paying close attention to the market for town homes and prices for what’s now referred to as the Frontage Road Development could be influenced by sales at the […]

At the urging of Seneca Planning Commission, the real estate group pursuing a large home development on the city’s northwest edge held a community meeting to allow nearby residents the chance to learn more about the project and to ask questions and register concerns.  And there remain many concerns of homeowners in Keowee Plantation, Woodcreek Drive, Queen Anne Lane and […]