Author: Dick Mangrum

A bridge near Salem is considered unsafe for fire trucks and other heavy vehicles, but Oconee County has a plan.  At their meeting Tuesday next week, the county fathers will be asked to award Thrift Development of Seneca a contract worth nearly $750 thousand to build a replacement bridge at Cheohee Valley Road by what’s called super elevating the roadway […]

Chances are you can get a look at Santa Claus tonight in Westminster.  The city’s annual Christmas parade will roll down the main street starting at 6:30.

The policy board for the Joint Regional Sewer Authority is scheduled Monday to exercise its right to take up a threatened lawsuit behind closed doors.  The court action, on behalf of Seneca, should it come to be, would pit the county’s largest user of the system against the two smaller ones.  According to Monday afternoon’s meeting agenda, the purpose for […]

A lingering fire of brush is pronounced contained this morning at the interchange of 11 and 123 between Seneca and Westminster.  The fire originally sparked on Wednesday when a trash truck, with its forks in the air, took down power lines and poles.

The Blood Emergency Readiness Corps was established this week, in response to the school shootings in Oxford Township, Michigan, and this region’s Blood Connection is part of a partnership to prepare the Carolinas and Georgia for emergencies when blood needs are great.  Three “on call” blood centers sent extra blood to Versiti – the blood center that serves the Oxford […]

The Westminster police say a K-9 sniff of a Jeep stopped by the police this week led to multiple drug charges against the 24-year old driver of the Jeep Liberty.  The police stop took place Tuesday at the Long Creek Highway and W. North Avenue.  Law enforcement records show the following charges against Kristal Jasmine Lynn Bernhardt:  possession with intent […]

Sheriff’s officers say their chase of a GMC Suburban ended near Westminster when the SUV rode over stop sticks on the Davis Bridge Road near the Pickens Road.  The arrest of William Lamar Crawford resulted.  According to law enforcement, 36-year old Crawford was charged with trafficking methamphetamine and was issued citations alleging disregarding a stop sign, open container in vehicle, […]

On lakefront property near the Oconee Regional Airport, improvements are being advanced for  a Lake Hartwell boat landing.  The county PRT’s Phil Shirley has a date with Oconee County fathers at the county council meeting planned Tuesday night next week.  Shirley wants to see the start of phase 1 improvements at the Seneca Creek Landing, enhancements such as a three-lane […]

A government-designated opportunity zone has begun to show some signs of new economic vitality in a small Oconee County community that, to some, is forgotten.  The closing of Newry’s major textile employer 46 years ago, to a great extent, struck at the heart of a village where people lived, worked, and shopped.  Now, however, a Greenville-based development group, taking advantage […]

Clemson City Council next week will sit down to a meeting agenda that will include the following item:  “Consider repealing/amending the Ordinance requiring face coverings (Masks) at indoor locations of schools, pre-schools, kindergartens, and daycares within the city of Clemson….”