Author: Dick Mangrum

According to the office of Senator Graham, the Department of Homeland Security has confirmed to the South Carolina Republican that the individual charged with murder of Georgia student Laken Riley was paroled into the U-S illegally.  And it prompts Graham to conclude, “There is no effective detention when it comes to illegal immigrants coming to our border.”  Venezuelan national Jose […]

Duke Energy customers Dale Wilde and Sharon DeRidder worry for those trying to make financial ends meet in a time of high inflation and the prospects that their home energy bills will jump as early as August 1.  Wilde and DeRidder were among nine customers who brought issues to the attention of the state Public Service Commission during the hearing […]

The roadshow of the South Carolina Public Service Commission arrived last night in Seneca for the purpose of taking the temperature of Duke Energy customers when it comes to the utility company’s bid to win a rate increase impacting customers in Duke’s 18-county service territory across the state.  Last night’s approximate 90-minute hearing in the Harry Hamilton Auditorium at Seneca […]

A lifelong Oconeean approaching his 40th birthday was sent to prison today for 17 years, credited with jail time awaiting trial.  This, after a jury convicted William David Gunn in a burglary that occurred one year ago.  Defense lawyer Catherine Wyse appealed for leniency for her client, but prosecutor Beth Blundy called Gunn “a menace” to Oconee County considering his […]

You can help make the town of Salem a tidier place.  Everyone is invited to be part of a town-wide cleanup day in Salem Saturday, April 27.  They’ll get organized at 8 o’clock that Saturday morning in the parking lot of the Calvary Baptist Church.  Trash bags and pick up sticks will be provided.  Volunteers will form groups to start […]

Pizza is the lunch time menu for the Oconee jury now deliberating the case of a man in his late 30s.  The State went to trial yesterday against William David Gunn, charged burglary and other offenses — the result of his arrest by the sheriff’s office a year ago.

A 18-year-old man has been arrested by the Oconee Sheriff’s Office on multiple charges, including first degree burglary.  According to a sheriff’s office report, Ryan Thomas Cowie of Pearl River, New York was arrested early Sunday on a third floor at the EPOCH student housing complex near Clemson.

A sheriff’s sergeant, Aaron Alexander, is on the stand this morning in the Oconee General Sessions Court trial. It’s day two in the trial of William David Gunn, charged with burglary and other offenses when arrested in April last year.  First Sgt. Alexander testified that Gunn was taken into custody on the back property where the owner reported a home […]

From Friday through yesterday, Walhalla fire fighters have responded to multiple calls. They include, backing up their West Union counterparts yesterday at a structure fire on N., Burns Mill Road.  On Saturday afternoon they stopped a brush fire on the Lake Jemiki Road.  They were busy Friday afternoon when wind blew down trees on Spring Street causing an electric power […]

A public comment speaker at last night’s Oconee School Board meeting complained the quest to win in scholastic athletics should not carry weight over a child’s faith.  David Hoodenpyle complained to the trustees of an instance in which, he said, a coach denied a child from missing a religious activity for athletic practice.  Hoodenpyle spoke at length at the public […]