Author: Dick Mangrum

In fast-growing Oconee and increasing vehicle traffic, where might the state locate the next set of traffic lights as a way to slow traffic and enhance safety?  According to what Sam Dickson of Westminster said yesterday, it could well be on Wells Highway in front of the large Borg Warner manufacturing plant.  Dickson chairs the county’s state “C” Fund Committee […]

Volunteers will assemble tomorrow morning for the Second Annual “Team Up to Clean Up” in the Utica Community near Seneca.  Everyone who would like to pitch in to help beautify a former mill village hit hard by last year’s EF3 tornado is invited to assemble at 8 o’clock in the morning at the Ann Hope United Methodist Church.  The cleanup […]

Reduced demand for the COVID-19 vaccine, among other developments, has prompted Prisma Health to change hours of operation at vaccination sites, such as its Oconee Memorial Hospital at Seneca.  Starting Monday, Oconee Memorial will offer the vaccine between the hours of 8 am and 4:30 pm Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.  Playing into this also is the available of the vaccine […]

The road and bridge manager for Oconee County says the largest contract in his 12-year time with the county is to be released in the next two weeks.  Kyle Reid made the announcement at yesterday’s first in-person meeting of the county’s state “C” fund committee since prior to COVID-19.  And the committee chairman, Sam Dickson, said there are to be […]

A Townville man has been arrested by Oconee sheriff’s officers in a case that originated from what’s called a controlled buy from a confidential informant working at the direction of law enforcement.  According to the sheriff’s office, Mitchell Montrell Weston allegedly distributed between 100 and 200 grams of methamphetamine last summer in Oconee County.

  One man is now accused of committing sex crimes against seven adults, according to an announcement yesterday by Oconee Sheriff’s Office.  Seneca resident Trey Jerell Frasier has been charged additionally with the sexual assault of two more victims, in warrants obtained Wednesday.  By yesterday, 27-year old Frasier remained jailed, under a combined surety bond of $830 thousand dollars.

City of Seneca employees turned in extraordinary efforts during a pandemic and tornado year, and they are to be rewarded.  Included in the next set of budget projections for Oconee’s largest municipality are pay raises and an increase for the lowest minimum salary earners.  After having received no pay raise in the last year, Seneca’s workforce is in line for […]

Law enforcement officials say wiretaps are a tool rarely used to bring criminal charges in South Carolina, but they helped make 26 indictments affecting Oconee County residents in a heroin and methamphetamine operation called “Rocket Fuel”.  Sheriff Mike Crenshaw, along with State Attorney General Alan Wilson, this afternoon made the announcement that the streets have been cleared of 26 people […]

New confirmed South Carolina cases on today’s DHEC report:  184 individuals.  Three in Oconee County.  Statewide, there was one new death–a middle aged Spartanburg County resident who died Sunday.  Of 7,980 test results, the South Carolina positivity dropped to 3%.  These numbers are data that reflect the end of the day on Tuesday.