Author: Dick Mangrum

Anthony Bernarducci, director of music and vocal studies at Clemson University, debuted “Something Beautiful Remains” with colleagues and students at the fall concert in the Brooks Center.  It was in tribute of a dear friend, Pat Moore, who died in October after a four-year battle with cancer.  Moore was a director of the funeral home Bernarducci worked in alongside her […]

THE CITY OF WESTMINSTER PUBLIC WORKS ADVISES THE RESIDENTS LIVING ON US 76 WEST OF RIVERSONG DR, ALL ROADS OFF OF US 76, INCLUDING UNITY CHURCH RD, COBB BRIDGE RD, NORTH UP HWY 76 ALL THE WAY TO THE WELCOME CHURCH COMMUNITY LOCATED IN OCONEE COUNTY, TO VIGOROUSLY BOIL THEIR WATER FOR AT LEAST (1) FULL MINUTE PRIOR TO DRINKING […]

A Westminster official says an apparent instrument failure caused a complete drain last night of a water tank in the rural Unity Community.  The result is an interruption of service for customers from highway 76 at Riversong Road to the Welcome Church Community.  Those customers are now under a boil advisory, as a precaution to using water prior to drinking […]

Oconee School District’s outside bean counters have pronounced an unmodified, or clean, opinion in their examination of the public schools’ financial records for the government year ended June 30, 2023.  The audit report was presented to the trustees by Don Estep.  Total revenues and expenses for the 12 months ranged in the area of $113 million, when all numbers are […]

Besides a new school at Keowee, long-range Plan A includes another new school building:  this one, to replace Westminster Elementary.  At this point, the district estimates each of the new schools, Keowee and Westminster, will cost $35 million.  Plan A calls for additions at James Brown Elementary and Orchard Park Elementary, along with what’s called “critical maintenance” at several schools […]

One community to receive a new school; a second section of rural Oconee gets to hold onto its school.  A change approved by the county trustees adopted  long-range building Plan A to include the construction of a new Keowee Elementary School.  “They did not approve the consolidation of Keowee and Tamassee-Salem Elementary schools”, according to the district’s official announcement.  At […]

The lack of a quorum has cancelled this evening’s Walhalla Planning Commission, according to city planner Mark Bloomer.