Author: Dick Mangrum

South Carolina DNR seeks the help of Oconee County to expand its Stumphouse Mountain Heritage Preserve.  Seeking to acquire around 17 acres adjoining the preserve, DNR will ask County Council’s support tomorrow for the property purchase.  It’s on the council’s 6 o’clock meeting agenda tomorrow night. The acreage takes in upland hardwood forest that offers habitat for game and non-game […]

Fire around midnight Friday destroyed Dill’s Food City in Royston, Georgia.  The collapse of the building hampered fire fighters trying to determine if anyone was inside, but it was later determined no one was inside or injured — with the exception of one fire fighter treated for smoke inhalation.  Store buildings on both sides of Dill’s sustained smoke damage, but […]

Because it is Presidents’ Day, a holiday, there’s no early voting today.  By the finish of the sixth day of early voting on Friday, 199 early voters were added to Oconee’s running total — now at 2,694.  Early balloting in front of Saturday’s Republican presidential primary vote will conclude on Thursday.

Oconee Coroner Karl Addis says the car driver found deceased last week in Lake Hartwell drowned, according to the autopsy.  Contributing to India Medlin’s death was hypoglycemia due to insulin dependent diabetes.  The body of 64-year-old Medlin was discovered Thursday morning at the end of the Dr. John’s Road, along with her deceased pet dog “Taz.”  A Georgia fisherman reported […]

Oconee public schools and the chamber of commerce are drawing attention to a meeting next week at which “NIL” — name, image, and likeness — is to be explained during a 6:30 pm meeting Thursday night, February 22 at the Hamilton Career and Technology Center, with the idea that student athletes receive information to help them qualify for compensation for […]

More than 200 acres have changed hands in an upper section of Oconee County.  The county Register of Deeds confirms it was a $6 million transaction, the largest so far this year, involving two limited liability companies:  KDC RE LLC and Falls Park at McKinney’s Creek.  The property is described in the vicinity of the Sumter National Forest and bordering […]

For the first time, Hartsville, South Carolina’s Livingston Winston Thomas Jr. brings his artistry to the Upstate starting tomorrow and continuing through the end of next month.  Twenty-eight of his works will be featured at Seneca’s Bertha Lee Strickland Cultural Museum on South Second Street.  The title of the exhibition:  “Spectrum Unleashed: Black and White Stories, Colorful Journeys.”  Also on […]