Author: Dick Mangrum

The annual spring-time solicitation letter for the South Carolina Sheriff’s Association is no scam, insists Mike Crenshaw, the Oconee Sheriff who is a past president of the state association.  The effort is a direct mail campaign to South Carolinians statewide.  The SC Sheriff’s Association does not use telemarketers to solicit for contributions but does solicit donations via mail.  Letters are […]

Westminster City Council gave first reading last night to ordinances to annex properties and assign zoning classifications to them.  Mayor Ramey says there are six separate addresses to be added to the city limits.  They are located on Nina Circle, Cornelia Avenue, Clearmont Road, the Westminster Highway, and Marcengill Road.

The Oconee School District is welcoming six new hires in its countywide administrative staff.  The following man and women will move into their new roles when the new school year starts in August: Charlotte Kiker — Northside Elementary principal Mary Thrift — James Brown Elementary principal Shea Martin — joins the administration at Seneca High Ashley Ramirez — joins the […]

To minimize disruption to sanitation pickups, Walhalla will enter a lease-purchase arrangement to add a sanitation truck, and the city administrator plans to close the deal today.  Brandon Burton believes his city can acquire the sanitation truck by July or August.  There were questions last night whether the city would be better off by simply buying the truck now, but […]

The new, six-member city council in Westminster is on board to develop Hall Street property into a large recreation complex.  Mayor Ramey said, after receiving a recommendation last night from Steve Grogan, who chairs the project planning committee, the council was unanimous to accept a conceptual design and to direct its administrator to move forward with the process.

The divide was in evidence last night when Walhalla City Council gave preliminary OK on a 4-3 vote to a new budget for the next year.  Still ahead is final reading, along with a public hearing.  Meantime, however, council members want a workshop to better grasp the revenues and expenses the city will deal with in 2022-23.  They include a […]

The count last night at the Walhalla Depot totaled 39 people in the audience for the regular May meeting of the city council.  The meeting was moved from the tight meeting room at city hall to the larger depot venue , as the mayor promised when an overflow city hall crowd two weeks ago was forced to weather near stifling […]