Author: Dick Mangrum

Duke’s World of Energy is gearing up for its annual Festival of Trees display with a canned food drive to support Oconee feeding programs.  Through December, the public is encouraged to drop off 15-ounce canned goods at the World of Energy during normal business hours (10 am – 4 pm) to support the Duke Energy Foundation focus on feeding insecurities.  […]

Seneca businesswoman Taylor Reed says the launch of her bookstore is a success in her first year although, for years, the deck has been stacked against bookstores.  She says her First Chapter Bookshop on Ramcat Alley is thriving.  An event there Friday seemed to verify that as a local author, Linda Lovely, attracted a crowd for the launch of her […]

Walhalla councilman-elect Kenny Johns officially becomes a city councilman today at city hall. Straight up at the noon hour, Judge Roberta Barton is scheduled to administer the oath to the county’s former probate judge to allow him to start serving the two years remaining in Tyler Jordan’s unexpired council term.  Johns last week won the special election as part of […]

At the six o’clock hour last night, the Corinth-Shiloh Fire Department handled one call on top of the other.  First was a fire alarm at the Blue Ridge Orthopedics, followed six minutes later by a vehicle accident at 123 and Jacobs Road.  Chief Kevin Christenbury said, “We had to split into two groups to handle both incidents.”

There’s one fewer South Carolinian bidding for the presidency.  The Tim Scott campaign announces the candidate has suspended his campaign for the Republican nomination.  Senator Scott said he’s grateful to supporters for embracing his optimistic message and for enabling him to showcase the goodness of the country.  Scott’s exit leaves Nikki Haley the remaining South Carolinian in the contest.  

An autopsy is planned early this week on the body of a 61-year old Oconee County man.  Coroner Addis says Gary Bruce Green was found dead in his home fire Saturday afternoon near Salem, at 134 Grant Mill Road.  Fire fighters were sent to the address at 4:35 pm, and Green’s body was found in the living room after the […]

A first-year Seneca businesswoman began getting social media notifications from friends back in Maine not long after authorities identified a man from Bowdoin, Maine as the suspect in the Lewiston shootings.  It turns out her friends in Maine were asking hadn’t they been high school classmates of suspect Robert Card, 40 years old, and a graduate of Mt. Ararat High […]