Author: Dick Mangrum

A defendant changed his mind in the Oconee General Sessions Court and pleaded guilty to trafficking methamphetamine.  Judge Sprouse handed down a 15-year prison term to Derek Wayne Gibson.  A jury was sworn yesterday to start taking testimony this morning, but their services were no longer required when Gibson entered the guilty plea.  On the first day of court yesterday, […]

The owners of a home on a Lake Hartwell peninsula at Fair Play were denied last night in a bid to win an appeal of Oconee County’s setback requirements.  The home owners on Inlet Point Road sought a variance to the 10’ setback line to allow for a deck.  Chairman Jim Codner of the county board of zoning appeals indicated […]

The Quarter Pounder will be served from a new building in Clemson.  The Tiger Boulevard McDonald’s is getting a makeover from the ground up.  The 1976 building was demolished this month and the replacement McDonald’s, at the same location, is being built in time for an August opening.  Restaurant owner James Partridge says, “The modernized restaurant will focus on our […]

An event tomorrow by Walhalla Methodists should take a chunk of out of the problem of hunger.  From 4:30 to 5:30 tomorrow afternoon, food will be given away at the St. Luke Methodist Church on E. Main Street.

The entire, proposed pavement improvement work over the next year in South Carolina is open for public comment.  The DOT wants to hear from you on what you think about what’s in the plan to pave nearly one thousand miles roadway across the state at a cost of $472 million.  It’s part of South Carolina’s Ten-Year Plan for rebuilding state […]

Two spring sport athletes at West-Oak High School will take part in state all-star competition.  They are baseball pitcher Kurt Rogers and softball pitcher Kalen ‘Tate’ Sosby. Kurt is only the seventh Warrior in West-Oak’s approximate 40-year history to make the roster for the North/South All Star game.  Tate is the sixth softballer from her school chosen as a North/South […]

Seneca’s first-year police chief, Casey Bowling, will be the guest speaker at tomorrow’s meeting of the Seneca Rotary Club.

Within the last hour, Seneca’s WN 1st Street in the vicinity of The Journal is a car accident scene.  Emergency vehicles were at the scene.  The accident is believed to have involved a SUV.

On the one-year anniversary of the George Floyd murder, Senator Tim Scott joined two of his  colleagues in this statement:  “One year ago, George Floyd’s murder awakened millions of people around the world who had never before witnessed the deadly consequences in our policing system.  This anniversary serves as a painful reminder of why we must make meaningful change.  While […]

A man wounded by gunfire yesterday near Easley was sent to the hospital.  He was wounded in what the state police say was an incident involving him and Anderson County sheriff’s deputies.  Announcement by “SLED” indicates shots were exchanged between officers and an armed man as the deputies attempted a welfare check following a domestic dispute.  At the request of […]