Author: Dick Mangrum

Three people who are the finalists for chief of police in Westminster will have the chance Tuesday afternoon to make their last and best impressions on those who would employ them.  At 2 o’clock in the afternoon Tuesday, the mayor and council are scheduled to go into a private meeting to interview each of the finalists–Matt Patterson, Amanda Tinsley, and […]

A policy on weapons on campus and a policy to cover distance learning are among the topics for a Monday meeting of the commissioners of Tri-County Technical College.  It’s a noon hour meeting in the Ruby Hicks Board Room on the Pendleton campus.

In the next few days, Oconee School District is expected to publish a final number of COVID-19 cases in the schools for the 30-day month of September.  If the trend of late holds up, the cumulative number is expected to be fewer than the shortened school month in August.  And that’ll go to the assessment by Superintendent Thorsland that COVID […]

In front of the Oconee County councilmen next week will be a financial proposition to benefit the county’s one and only special tax district.  At its Tuesday meeting, the council will consider first reading of an ordinance to issue up to $1.5 million of taxpayer-backed general obligation bonds to benefit the Keowee Fire District, based in Keowee Key.  Language contained […]

Twenty-six people have so far reserved plaques for downtown Seneca flower planters, and a city council member says 10 more are needed to complete the project.  For $250 dollars, you can reserve a plaque in honor of yourself or as a memorial to someone else.  Councilwoman Denise Rozman has parlayed a grant from the Modern Woodmen of the World to […]

New cases:  1,514 (including 39 Oconee County cases) New deaths:  103 (including two in Oconee County) Of 20,788 test results, the new positivity:  10.4% (These numbers reflect the count at the end of the day Tuesday)

U-S Rep. Jeff Duncan, South Carolina 3rd District, has joined 44 colleagues in a letter to the Biden administration, voicing concerns about vaccine mandates applying to workers at Medicare and Medicaid-certified facilities.  The letter went to President Biden, the secretary for Health and Human Services and the administrator for Medicare and Medicaid.  Duncan said, “Several states are already nearing or […]

A Walhallan who is attempting to complete his north-south hike of the Appalachian Trail reached the start of the Smokies today at the Tennessee-North Carolina line.  That means Wayne Garland is 241 miles from the finish line.