Author: Dick Mangrum

Fireworks July 4 will help Salem commemorate the break from the mother country at night at the Eagle Ridge ball field.  The town of Salem will open gates at 8 pm, and everyone is invited to bring a blanket, a chair, and enjoy outdoor games.  The fireworks are scheduled to start at 9:30.  The town requests that everyone, please, leave […]

At their meeting Monday, the Oconee County planning commissioners will hear from a representative of CATbus.  On the agenda to speak is Ed Halbig, the planning and community development director for Seneca.  Free bus passenger service in Oconee County is mostly confined to Seneca and adjoining parts of the city.  Halbig has long maintained that expanding the service to cities […]

Jury notices from the clerk of court’s office have been sent to 225 Oconeeans to report for duty during General Sessions Court week June 28-July 2.  The office of the 10th Circuit Solicitor has announced a trial docket of five cases for the week before the July 4 weekend.  At the top of the docket are the charges of burglary […]

A 23-year old man near Seneca turned himself over to authorities yesterday afternoon and became the second person to be arrested in the investigation of burglary and gunfire Tuesday at a home near the Shiloh Road in the vicinity of the county airport.  The second arrest was that of Rodriquez Samarea Daquan Maddox of the W. Reedy Fork Road.  According […]

A man down on the middle of a road near Seneca is the latest victim of gunfire.  However, word from Oconee Sheriff’s Office is that last night’s case is one in which, it’s believed, there’s no danger to the public.  In this case, sheriff’s office received a report of a male in the middle of Mormon Church Road with a […]

86 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in South Carolina. Two in Oconee. Added to the death toll were an additional two South Carolinians. Of 4,318 test results received, 2.7% positivity. (These numbers are the data that reflect the 24-hour count at the end of the day Monday, June 14).

An Anderson man at the scene of an Oconee home burglary was wounded by gunfire and required hospital treatment before being arrested.  The Oconee Sheriff’s Office announces three charges against Chauncey Demetrius Williams:  petty larceny, first degree burglary, and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime.  The sheriff’s office identified the crime scene as a home […]

Block parties are being planned this summer in Walhalla as gestures to create goodwill among city residents and to promote good causes.  Amy Welch and Lorelai Swanson, representing the city’s diversity and inclusion committee, filled in the mayor and council on the plans that call for the next block party to be an evening of fun Friday, June 25 at […]

The body of Terry Hawkins has arrived at the Davenport Funeral Home, which is handling arrangements for the former Seneca man who enjoyed a notable career at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.  The mission of that lab is solving national security challenges through scientific excellence.  Not long after the start of the 21st century, Hawkins became a […]