Author: Dick Mangrum

The S.C. Drought Response Committee met Friday, July 12, via conference call to update the drought statuses for South Carolina counties. The drought declaration was removed completely for several counties in the Lowcountry, including Georgetown, Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester, Colleton, Beaufort, Jasper and Hampton counties. Over the past 30 days, 6 to 14 inches of rainfall has fallen across much of […]

The hope of the South Carolina DOT is that the closed section of US 123/the Toccoa Highway is that the highway can be reopened Monday evening.  However, resident construction engineer Alan Adams says weather or other factors could push the re-opening back a few days.  The DOT had hoped it would have been able to have lifted the five-month detour […]

A lawsuit filed last month in Newberry has the potential to divide a long time consortium of electric cities that derive their power supply through ownership in part of a nuclear reactor. Westminster is a member city of the Piedmont Municipal Power Agency, but its mayor says his city has no part in the legal squabble and anticipates it will […]

The expectation at Walhalla City Hall is that the city’s Stumphouse Tunnel Park, after road repairs, should re-open for visitors around the noon hour today.

Wisdom, fairness, and honesty are words ascribed to Flora Riley for the Seneca woman’s contributions to the process of Oconee County elections.  A drop-in held yesterday by the Board of Registration and Elections served as a farewell to Riley, who steps down after 33 years board service.  Riley still has the letters from the governor and state senator that confirmed […]

President Trump has switched strategy to determine the numbers of citizens and non-citizens in the population.  On this controversial issue, Trump can count Third District Rep. Jeff Duncan an ally.  The Laurens Republican issued said yesterday:  “The United States has every right to know how many citizens and non-citizens there are in this country….”  Duncan released a letter that he […]

The Walhalla mayor confirmed personnel changes this afternoon, and they involve the city’s second year administrator, Brent Taylor. Mayor Edwards says the many job responsibilities for Taylor are overloading his work schedule, and the mayor and the council are offering relief. Ashley Jones of the Municipal Court has assumed the position of clerk-treasurer, a vacated position. “That will free up […]

The job of executive director of the Oconee Economic Alliance is already a job that is highly sought after.  Amanda Brock, Oconee County administrator, this afternoon said there have been so far in excess of 25 applications received, and the job will remain posted until filled.  The county has spread a wide net to find a replacement for interim director […]

A prosecutor’s announcement today will mean that Columbia area resident Michael Lambert Seabrooke, arrested as the result of Pickens County investigations, will have a detention and preliminary hearing 10 o’clock Monday morning at the federal courthouse in Greenville. U-S Attorney Sherri A. Lydon says Seabrooke was arrested on a federal criminal complaint and charged with possessing firearms (destructive devices) which […]