Author: Dick Mangrum

One month after Ida made landfill in New Orleans, blood donations in southern Louisiana are still severely hindered.  That’s why Upstate South Carolina’s provider of blood for local and regional hospitals is supplementing the supply in Louisiana by sending products to the Blood Center of southern Louisiana.  Throughout the upstate and the rest of the country, blood donations remained down […]

The police in Seneca have arrested a man on charges in the investigation of crimes Sunday at a home on Livingston Circle.  Among the charges announced yesterday against Layfette Ronyell Hoover:  burglary first degree and domestic violence high and aggravated.  Arrest warrants signed by Officer Grate and issued by Judge Singleton allege that Hoover broke into the Livingston Circle home […]

  Business people, with a boost from their city, continue to invest money in the Seneca downtown.  Scott Moulder, city administrator, reported to the mayor and council last night that in its dying days a city program to assist start-ups has approved five grants.  They include assistance to Sebastian and Michela Bickel to plan to convert a former dress shop […]

A surprise visitor to Seneca City Hall last night delighted the city’s leaders, especially Ronnie O’Kelley, the mayor pro-tem.  A mayor from long ago, Lyn Norton, was in the audience in support of the city-assisted project to spruce up the 100-year old Ballenger House, which is home to a number of women’s clubs.  O’Kelley noted Norton’s appearance saying, he first […]

If you like the new Seneca Ramcat Alley look, chances are you will like what the city has in store for Main Street, N. Townville, and N. Depot.  The striping and re-seal work done to the one-block-long Ramcat Alley has looked so good that Scott Moulder, city administrator, says it has been decided that the city will do the same […]

It was evident last night at Seneca that Scott Moulder, the city administrator, embraces the spirit of Clark Griswold, the main character in the National Lampoon Christmas Vacation movie. It’s still weeks before Thanksgiving, but Moulder delighted the mayor and council when he announced that city crews this Friday, October 1 will start the task of installing the more than […]

Katie Smith has been a Seneca city employee only five weeks, but enough time to impress her superiors to award her increased job responsibilities.  In a ceremony last night at city hall, Smith took the oath as associate municipal judge.  Her boss, 23-year Judge Danny Singleton gave Smith the oath of office.  Smith, the former clerk to Oconee County Council, […]

A second person is under arrest in Oconee County, accused of culpability in a burglary in a rural part of the county.  The newest arrest, according to authorities, is that of Crystal Graham Bernard. The 45-year old Bernard was arrest yesterday and charged with first-degree burglary, petty larceny, and malicious injury to property on August 24 on Edgewood Drive.  The […]