Author: Dick Mangrum

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 […]

The Oconee Joint Regional Sewer Authority holds a hearing early next month to receive public comment on the proposed sewer rates around Fair Play and the I-85 corridor.  The hearing will be 4 o’clock Monday afternoon, March 4 during the commissioners’ meeting at the JRSA administrative offices at 623 Return Church Road, Seneca.  The proposed rates can be found at […]

Bids have been opened to clear land for a pad ready site within Oconee’s empty Golden Corner Commerce Park, and the county administrator says Oconee has learned valuable lessons in today’s climate of luring new economic development that can mean jobs and a stronger tax base.  Amanda Brock, the county administrator, confirms the county opened contractor’s bids this week that […]

Even before the official start of a presentation last night, a Westminster area man was quick to point out to an outside planning consultant where he thinks new piped sewer should go.  Looking at a county map, he pointed to the inside a triangular area within the county’s largest municipalities:  Seneca, Walhalla, and Westminster.  And he pointed to the southern […]

Early GOP presidential primary voting in Oconee approaches two thousand votes cast.  Added to the running count of the county elections office yesterday were 492 new votes.  After four days, the total number that has exercised its voting rights reached 1,972.  Early voting will end on Thursday next week.  Although Monday is President’s Day, South Carolina will allow no early […]

The bodies of a woman and her pet dog were recovered yesterday from the waters of Lake Hartwell near her home.  Coroner Addis says an autopsy today will help determine the cause of India Medlin’s death.  Sixty-four-year-old Medlin lived on the Dr. John’s Road and it was at the end of the road where a vehicle was spotted 75 yards […]

The seemingly tireless state senator who represents Oconee-Pickens in the legislature, Thomas Alexander, is being remembered by local interests in economic development.  At a luncheon meeting today at Keowee Key, members of the board and the executive committee of the Oconee Economic Alliance awarded Alexander a large glass sculpture in recognition of his work to further economic development.  In his […]