Author: Dick Mangrum

  The Hon. Lawton McIntosh of Anderson will hold the gavel for a term of General Sessions Court at the Oconee Courthouse Monday through Friday next week in Walhalla.  To prepare for the term, a meeting of the Oconee Grand Jury was conducted November 2.  The grand jury is now meeting privately in the large 4th floor courtroom where there […]

  The popular football coach Dabo Swinney received write-in votes in the November General Election in Oconee County.  Ryan Nowland, assistant director of registration and elections, says all votes cast for the Tigers’ head mentor were written on the ballot in the section where Oconeeans were asked to write-in names for soil and water and conservation district offices.  But the […]

Two special events planned this month at Seneca’s Shaver Recreation Complex on WS 4th Street.  From 10 am to 3 pm Saturday, there will be COVID-19 tests given there by personnel on behalf of Clemson University and South Carolina DHEC.  And on Thursday, November 26 free Thanksgiving meals will be served as part of the annual Feed the 5,000 in […]

A 2004 Nissan Frontier crew cab pickup has been stolen from Tangelwood Drive in the Foxwood Hills section of Oconee County, and the Sheriff’s Office appeal to the public for any help about the theft reported Sunday morning.  The truck, gray or champagne in color, had a South Carolina tag of G-N-V-8-4-4.  If you can aid the investigation, call Crimestoppers […]

ABC News quotes congressional aides as saying a Pennsylvania postal worker has recanted claims that supervisors tried to backdate ballots mailed after the election.  The false allegations were cited by the Trump camp and top Republicans, including South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham, as potential examples of voter fraud impacting the results of the presidential election.  Erie, Pennsylvania postal worker Richard Hopkins […]

The coroner has made his ruling.  The deaths of two men in Seneca Sunday night are a case of homicide by gunfire.  Coroner Addis made the announcement after autopsies yesterday found that Zema Darnell Fling and Christopher Hunter Todd died of wounds to the chest.  The police are investigating what happened at the Tribble Street address.

In today’s report, South Carolina DHEC counts 1,326 new cases of COVID-19 across the state and 18 new deaths, including two elderly Pickens County residents.  For the latest 24-hour count, there were 31 additional confirmed COVID cases among Oconee residents.  Test results received by DHEC statewide were 9,770.  The positivity of those tests:  13.6%.

From the sale of property recently, the family of Oconee native William Elrod made enough money available to help treat sheriff’s officers and office employees to a meal.  The Elrod family has an Oconee law enforcement legacy dating back a couple of centuries.  William Elrod, who lived from 1901 to 1980, became deputy sheriff after finishing a career with the […]