Author: Dick Mangrum

A call to a rural convenience store on Wednesday turned into a wider investigation of shoplifting incidents, according to an announcement by the Oconee Sheriff’s Office. The Sheriff’s Office yesterday announced the arrest of Hunter Blasé Brauch of the Stamp Creek Road, Salem after an incident at the Country Junction Store and an altercation with a store clerk. Brauch was […]

A large ridge of high pressure that created the area’s hot and dry weather has been replaced by a trough of low pressure that ushered in clouds, rain and cooler weather.  That development, according to the South Carolina Drought Response Committee, is enough to completely remove the drought declaration completely for Oconee, Pickens and Anderson counties.  The incipient drought status […]

The funeral for Raymond Eugene Dodd, 73, of Seneca will be 11 o’clock Tuesday morning, June 18 at the Newry Church of God; the burial to follow in Oconee Memorial Park.  Dodd, along with Dr. Stan Rampey of Seneca, died Wednesday in a Florida plane crash.  Dodd was a self-employed mechanic and a veteran of the U-S Army in Vietnam.  […]

Oconee County’s annual thank you to the Wounded Warriors will take place next week.  It’s an annual few days of rest-and-relaxation for Marines and other military personnel.  Once again, the town  of Salem will play a part by hosting a breakfast for the military personnel.  The town’s Marti Jennings says the breakfast is for the Wounded Warriors only, but the […]

New budgets for the town of Salem received the first of two readings this week. For a second straight year, Salem water users face a rate increase. The town’s Marti Jennings says the proposed increase amounts to five percent and would reflect an additional 22 cents for every one thousand gallons used.

Long time Seneca businessman and American Legion member Bob Hughes of Seneca is now residing at the Richard M. Campbell Veterans Nursing Home in Belton.  Hughes is now 92 years old.  His son, Gerald, says Mr. Hughes was admitted to the facility two weeks ago and would like visits from several of his many friends.

Dr. Stanley Rampey, one of two Seneca men killed in yesterday’s Orlando, Florida plane crash, was a leading physician in one of Prisma Health Upstate’s medical practices.  Here is a statement released this morning by Prisma: “Dr. Stanley Rampey was a respected and admired physician, and Prisma Health is saddened to hear of his passing. Dr. Rampey was a family […]

The Palmetto Conservation Foundation and its partners received a national achievement award this week in Washington, D-C for developing Stumphouse Mountain Bike Park on city of Walhalla property in Oconee County. The awards program is related to the Recreational Trails Program of the Federal Highway Administration, which provides competitive funding for trails and greenways across the country. Recreational Trails money […]

The newest reserve officers for the Oconee Sheriff’s Office are Lewis Beck and Stacy Foster.  In a reserve capacity, a deputy is required to work 20 hours a month and attend a training session.  Before they can go out on their own, reserve deputies must accrue 240 hours of seat time with a regular deputy.  Reserve deputies have the same […]