Author: Dick Mangrum

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 […]

Agents from the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) are investigating an officer-involved shooting in Spartanburg County on Tuesday involving a Spartanburg County Sheriff’s deputy and an armed man, Duane Leslie Heard, 63. The incident resulted in Heard and a deputy being shot. Spartanburg County Deputy Austin Derek Aldridge, 25, died from his injuries at the hospital Tuesday night. Heard […]

  “It’s a first step” is how the Oconee County sheriff responds to the Senate vote on gun law reform.  But Sheriff Crenshaw also qualifies his approval by saying he’s a supporter of the 2nd Amendment and does not want to see a law that would infringe on the gun rights of law-abiding citizens.  Remarks by Crenshaw can be heard […]

As president of the South Carolina Association of Counties, Paul Cain of Seneca has been able to elicit a scholarship for a local student.  Last night a ceremony was held during the Oconee County Council meeting in which Ellenor Burrell was featured and announced as the 2022 recipient of the South Carolina Association of Counties Presidential Scholarship.  It’s a $2 […]

The public has a chance early next month to weigh-in on a plan for 24.5 acres adjoining Clemson.  The city council holds a hearing 5:30 pm Tuesday, July 5 at city hall on C. Todd Kennedy’s proposal to annex five parcels near Lawrence Road and develop the acreage as a planned development of residential and commercial uses.  Kennedy’s application calls […]