Author: Dick Mangrum

Soon Clemson University will welcome a new class of 4,600 first-year, undergraduate students to campus.  Classes begin Wednesday, August 18, and next week move-ins to on-campus housing will get underway.

In the future, the telephone number of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline will appear on student identification cards for both public and private school children.  A newly-signed South Carolina law also requires each school to add the social media platform, telephone number, or text number for at least one other resource that best fits the needs of their school or […]

City of Walhalla has a role to play as Partners in Wine pursues a new location on the south side of Main Street.  Brandon Burton, city administrator, says the city is aware that Partners plans to move into a middle-of-the-block location, 222 E. Main Street.  According to Burton, the police department is required to sign off on Partners’ request for […]

The police in Stephens County, Georgia are investigating shootings yesterday, believed to have occurred at two separate convenience stores.  In all, three people are said to have been wounded by gunfire.  A Toccoa man was taken into custody.  The first shooting was reported just after the noon hour at Buddy’s Kwik Stop on Big A Road; the second at Tony’s […]

A late afternoon crash at an accident-prone intersection near Walhalla took the life of a 70-year old Seneca woman.  Coroner Karl Addis said Aida Esther Rivera Ramos died at 4:06 pm in the emergency department at the Oconee hospital.  The state patrol counted five vehicles involved in the accident at  highway 11 and the E. Bear Swamp Road.  Details of […]

A Clemson football player faces the charge of misdemeanor reckless driving for exceeding the speed limit that allegedly led to an accident that injured a postal worker.  The Clemson city police yesterday announced the arrest of Fred Davis II, a cornerback, in their investigation of an accident July 21 on U-S 123.  The police chief, Jorge Campos, told city officials […]

The police in Walhalla say they arrested two North Carolina men and charged them in the investigation of the theft of catalytic converters from vehicles behind a highway 11 church.  The report of a suspicious vehicle at Kingdom Hall Jehovah’s Witness started the investigation during the 5 o’clock hour on Thursday morning.  Law enforcement records show multiple charges, including possession […]

Pickens County Sheriff’s Office announces that the son of a woman killed in a July 1 home fire has been arrested and charged with her murder.  Additionally, 34-year old Eric James Harmon has been  charged with arson first degree.  Fire fighters discovered the body of Harmon’s mother, 57-year old Beverly Harmon, inside the home at 191 Duncan Road, Six Mile.  […]