Author: Dick Mangrum

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….”

A 39-year old man was jailed yesterday morning after the Oconee Sheriff’s Office investigated an incident of a man and woman disturbance at a business on SC 183/the Walhalla-Pickens Highway near Walhalla.  Law enforcement records show the arrest of James Tab Cogdill on charges of kidnapping and domestic violence first degree.  Deputies found Cogdill in the parking lot and found […]

On the morning of August 23, in a phone call to the county administrator, an upset Oconee Coroner Karl Addis told Administrator Brock that he had disgraced his position as coroner with an error of judgment.  This led to Addis’s admission to an extra-marital affair, part of which was conducted inside his office next to the hospital.  At one point, […]

The Oconee County interchange—highways 11 and 123—have re-opened in both directions as public safety personnel continue to deal with the aftermath of yesterday’s trash truck accident.  9-1-1 this morning received calls about the flare-up of a brush fire near accident scene.  The noon hour accident yesterday left the Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative with having to replace 15 poles after the […]

The state police, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, began today to release records in its investigation of whether Oconee Coroner Karl Addis violated any criminal laws were broken in the conduct of an extra-marital affair.  The conclusion of a circuit solicitor requested to look into the matter was that while the coroner’s actions were in-appropriate they did not rise […]

The truck wreck around the noon hour took down power poles supplying electricity to the complex of manufacturing plants at and near the 11-123 interchange in Oconee County–about halfway between Seneca and Westminster.  Highway traffic is being diverted.  No one is reported injured, but there’s a lots of smoke, says a spokeswoman for the Blue Ridge Electric Co-Op.  Blue Ridge’s […]

Much of the 11-123 interchange between Seneca and Westminster remains blocked at this hour — the result of what county officials say was a truck accident around the noon hour that took down power lines and, perhaps, ignited a brush fire.  We are told there are no injuries.  101.7/WGOG NEWS has an unconfirmed report the truck that wrecked apparently had […]