Author: Dick Mangrum

After three years in operation, a business arm of Seneca government appears to be on solid financial footing.  City administrator Scott Moulder started the annual meeting today of the board of the Business Development Support Center by reporting finances in the black.  The number given:  $47,007 total revenue against $28,711 expenses.  It’s now a 70-member organization.  Riley Johnson, board executive […]

A death yesterday at the Pickens County Detention Center is being investigated by the county coroner’s office and the state Law Enforcement Division.  Deputy Coroner Andrew Wilson says Fire and EMS responded early yesterday to the jail in response to a cardiac arrest call and found 51-year-old Easley resident Michael Stephen Cruse dead.  An autopsy will take place.

The board of Oconee school trustees approved filling three administrative positions.  Kathy Ward, after several years at Daniel High School, is the new assistant principal at Walhalla High School.  Lauren Provost moves from classroom teaching to assistant principal at Walhalla Elementary and Tamassee-Salem Elementary.  Erin Garland leaves James Brown Elementary to be the school district’s new director of ATSI – […]

Former Seneca resident Letitia Verdin is one of a half dozen hopefuls to land a seat on the state’s highest court, the South Carolina Supreme Court.  Verdin an attorney from Greenville now sits on the state’s appeals court.  She’s a daughter of the late Angela and Harry Hamilton of Seneca.  The state Judicial Merit Selection Commission has set Thursday, May […]

U-S representative  Andrew Clyde of Georgia says the consolidation of post office processing and distribution centers across North Georgia are a failure.  And the 9th District representative wants an investigation.  In February, the USPS consolidated the Atlanta, North Metro, Augusta, and Macon distribution centers to a new Atlanta operation.  But since then, according to Lake Hartwell Radio WLHR, letters and […]

Westminster businesses in the vicinity of Retreat Street downtown are enjoying a surge in customers.  And to better facilitate parking and traffic in a one-block section, Westminster intends to convert Retreat to one-way traffic only – directionally from Windsor to Main, to the Depot side of Main Street.

A Walhalla church counteracts the notion that there’s no such thing as a free lunch.  St. Luke Methodist opens its pantry 4:30 to 5:30 this afternoon to distribute free food.

A regular test today for the outdoor warning sirens around Oconee Nuclear.  Between the hours of 11 am and 1 pm, the sirens are to be tested for five to 30 seconds to ensure they are working properly and can function in the event of an emergency.  If there were a real emergency at the plant, radio and TV stations […]

City administrator Kevin Bronson admits he was “very embarrassed” at Westminster’s failure to notify its water customers of the lifting of the most recent boil water advisory.  A plan was in place, but it broke down, and now Westminster is making changes.  The situation prompted Councilwoman Audrey Reese to say her city should not rely completely on a digital notification […]

The official “State of Oconee” will be delivered Friday, but the county administrator likely will alert a civic group in Westminster to some of the county’s status, at least from her perspective.  At the noon hour today, Amanda Brock is scheduled to address the Westminster Rotary Club.  Brock is a Walhalla Rotarian, and the president of her club, Stephen Graves, […]