Author: Dick Mangrum

Municipal Election Day arrives tomorrow in Oconee County.  Which means there will be voting in each of the county’s five municipalities at the regular polling places between  7am and 7 pm.  In the county’s three largest cities–Seneca, Walhalla and Westminster–there’s competition on the ballots for seats on the city councils.

Everyone interested in Fair Play is invited for a drop-in style meeting, a week from today, to have a look at a professionally-done master plan for the unincorporated community at the southern end of Oconee.  The meeting will take place between 5 and 7 pm Monday, November 8 at the fire department, 502 E. Fair Play Blvd.  Up for discussion […]

A publicly un-identified deputy sheriff is out of a job in Stephens County, Georgia after the county sheriff determined he violated policies.  The sheriff’s office conducted an internal investigation after a letter to a newspaper described the deputy as having repeatedly cursed a bicycle rider who was a pulled over for riding his bike on the wrong side of the […]

According to the count by Johns Hopkins University, there have now been more than 5 million COVID deaths worldwide.  Of that number, South Carolina DHEC reports, 216 of those deaths were Oconee County residents.

Walhalla’s top weather numbers are in the records books for the month of October.  The autumnal month in the county seat saw a high temperature of 82 degrees on the first day of the month and low temperatures of 37 on both October 27 and 28.  Nearly six inches of rain fell in October.

A fire late yesterday morning in the Five Forks Community between Walhalla and Westminster displaced four people, and it’s a fire under investigation, according to the Walhalla Fire Department.  Walhalla fire fighters were among those responding to the mobile home fire on Brooksmore Road, Five Forks community.  They were alerted to the fire at 10:30 am.

Deputies in Anderson County late last week charged a 30-year old Greenville County man with murder in the death of a patient near Easley.  Sent to jail in Anderson County was Michael Garland of Travelers Rest on the charge of murder of 25-year old Easley resident Amber Nicole Morris.  Deputies went to an address on Elizbeth City Drive in Anderson […]

Unless there is violence or true threats of violence, Senator Lindsey Graham has joined other Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee calling for the Justice Department to take a neutral stance when it comes to free speech at school board meetings.  Graham’s office last week released a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland in which the South Carolina senator […]