Author: Dick Mangrum

An Upstate outfit that specializes in home repairs to eligible recipients is the recipient of one of 15 Duke Energy grants for South Carolina non-profits that help seniors with home repairs.  Rebuild Upstate (Oconee and Pickens counties) receives $10 thousand.  The non-profit may use the money to install safety handrails in bathrooms, replace rotting floors, install handicap ramps, and repair […]

South Carolina Chief Justice Donald Beatty believes there’s demonstrated need for a mental health court in Anderson County to divert mentally ill persons from jails.  In an order this week, Beatty appointed At-Large Judge Cordell Maddox to preside over the Anderson Mental Health Court and Judge Lawton McIntosh as his backup.  The chief justice acknowledged that David Wagner, 10th circuit […]

After hearings late last month, two attorneys have been deemed qualified and nominated to run for a vacant judgeship in the 10th Circuit of Oconee and Anderson counties.  It’s a seat belonging to Anderson County.  According to the state’s Judicial Merit Selection Commission, the two are David Brousseau, attorney in Anderson, and Heather Vry Scalzo, attorney in Greenville.  A vote […]

The pantry at Walhalla’s St. Luke Methodist empties its shelves this afternoon of containers of packaged food, along with meat and eggs.  The food giveaway at the E. Main Street church 4:30 to 5:30 pm.

Tuesday, January 16 is the deadline set by Westminster for anyone interested in serving as that city’s next police chief to send a resume.  Because of the time it’ll take to interview and vet finalists to succeed the resigned Matt Patterson, it’s projected Westminster will name the new chief sometime in March.  That’s longer than Brian Ramey, the mayor, would […]

On Westminster’s Main Street, between Lucky and Isundega streets, motorists are violating the 25 mile an hour speed limit.  As a deterrent, the city will get prices on speed bumps.  The speed bumps the city has in mind will be of a plastic type, not the kind that loosens a driver’s fillings.  Kevin Bronson, city administrator, describes the speed bumps […]

The city administrator says a pre-trial settlement of a lawsuit among parties with Westminster’s electric power supplier means the city will have to raise its retail electric power rates.  Administrator Kevin Bronson made the prediction last night, as the city council approved his recommendation to settle the case of Greer and Rock Hill versus the Piedmont Municipal Power Agency.  The […]

Westminster expects the results this morning of the first set of water samples from yesterday’s tank emptying in the Unity Community off highway 76.  That tank has since been refilled, but the boil advisory for customers in that vicinity remains in place.  With the hope, Kevin Harbin says, of lifting the advisory around mid-day tomorrow.  Harbin, the utilities director, says […]

South Carolina’s junior U-S senator, Tim Scott, spoke in Charleston at Chanukah in the Square in support of Israel and Jewish people and condemned antisemitic, pro-Hamas demonstrations taking place in the U-S, especially at American colleges and universities.  In part, Scott said, “I would say to every student on college campus fomenting hatred and antisemitism and promoting Jewish genocide and […]