Author: Dick Mangrum

Affected rural Westminster water customers may go back to normal use of their service.  The city announces a second set of bacteria tests were free of any contamination, and the boil advisory has been lifted.

City of Walhalla made the following announcement this afternoon: “After reviewing the forecast for Sunday, we have made the decision to cancel this year’s Christmas Parade. While we understand the disappointment this may cause, the safety of our participants and the families coming to view are our priority.   We are currently making preparations for a virtual parade. Additional details […]

For discussion and possible action, long-range building plans are on Monday night’s meeting agenda of the Oconee school trustees.  Supporters of the Tamassee-Salem Elementary School worry that the board will choose the plan to close their school and the Keowee Elementary School and consolidate both into a new building.  The trustees combined work meeting/regular December meeting takes place at 6 […]

Two additional persons are in custody today in a continuing investigation of an armed robbery late last month at Utica, when sheriff’s officers answered a shots fired call on Gammell Street.  The sheriff’s office reported detained and jailed are two young males from the Pickens County town of Central.  The following charges were placed against 18-year-old Rodrickus Demale Williams II:  […]

An arrest has been made in the investigation of a burglary last weekend on Walhalla’s Keowee Street.  Law enforcement records show a 55-year old resident of Verner Street, Deedra Ann Holloway, charged with petty larceny and first-degree burglary Sunday, December 3 at a neighborhood home on Keowee Street. An investigating police officer accessed a CCTV, closed circuit television video, to […]

A meeting this morning at Pine Street established Oconee County’s Opioid Task Force, with the election of officers and explanation of the group’s major responsibility.  Dr. Aaron Zeller, Prisma Health physician, was elected chairman; Scott Krein, director of Oconee Emergency Management, elected vice-chairman.  The major responsibility of the task force will be to recommend to Oconee County Council how to […]

A three-day living nativity scene starts tonight in Salem on the grounds of the Eagle Nest Art Center at 4 Eagle Lane.  It’s a drive-thru event, from 6 to 8 o’clock tonight, tomorrow night and, weather permitting, Sunday night.

A civil hearing was called off yesterday in Walhalla just after it started when one lawyer could not hear the other.  In an online hookup, Larry Brandt of Walhalla and David Paavola of Columbia could not hear each other.  As a result, Paavola’s motion for a group of landowners near Lake Keowee for a jury trial in a case involving […]