Author: Dick Mangrum

The finance committee of Oconee Joint Regional Sewer Authority will recommend a mid-year rate increase to the member cities as a way to help generate monies to pay for several pressing system improvements.  The committee was unanimous yesterday in suggesting a 20% increase to the three cities to treat wastewater, starting with bills to be due March 15.  Westminster’s Kevin […]

Oconee County resident Marcus Hedden is sure that there are a number of Oconeeans who are trying to help those in Kentucky whose lives became chaotic in Friday night’s tornadoes.  Mr. Hedden and his wife, Lisa, have a donated trailer backed up to their carport on the Burnt Tanyard Road and have made it available to drop off essential items […]

A man left his car running in front of Prisma Health Oconee Memorial.  While he escorted his wife inside, someone drove off in the Hyundai Sante Fe.  A deputy sheriff stopped the car and the driver in the parking lot of a nearby restaurant.  Placed into investigative detention and later charged with grand larceny was, according to law enforcement records, […]

Repair crews are digging this morning to find and replace a water leak at West Union.  The leak cut off traffic over the weekend on SC 11 from the traffic lights to across the bridge.

  Dale Glymph is scheduled to officially join the Westminster City Council when he is sworn into office in a ceremony at 4 o’clock Tuesday afternoon, January 4.  Two incumbent council members—Yousef Mefleh and Jimmy Powell—will also take the oath for new, 4-year terms. Glymph will fill the seat that Reid Adams held.      

Oconee County’s Kevin Brown has been appointed commander of Troop 3 for the South Carolina Highway Patrol.  Named by the state Department of Public Safety, Brown succeeds Major Michael Carson to command troopers in Oconee, Anderson, Pickens, Greenville, and Spartanburg counties.  Kevin Brown’s dad, Neal, is a retired captain who led Troop 3 from 2006 to 2010.

Saturday’s Fair Play parade was a washout.  The rescheduled date for that community’s Christmas parade is Saturday, December 18, same time, same place.  The parade lineup will be Yoder’s parking lot at 11:30. Roads to be closed at 12:45 for the parade start at 1 pm.

Disaster trained volunteers from the Greater Carolinas Region of the American Red Cross are deploying to support relief efforts following tornadoes that devastated multiple states over the weekend.   The Red Cross and our partners are working around the clock to help those in need and make sure everyone has a safe place to stay, food to eat, critical relief […]