Author: Dick Mangrum

Retired Seneca educator Helen Rosemond Saunders has the honor of being the recipient of the state’s Order of the Silver Crescent.  It goes to those who’ve made significant contributions through leadership and volunteerism and have been a lifelong influence on a region or community.  Rosemond-Saunders was feted yesterday during a luncheon at Tri-County Technical College, where she serves as a […]

A businessman in Seneca sought last night to develop what he called an upscale home development around existing neighborhoods, but those who live nearby are taking issue.  And the opponents to Dan Freeman’s plans for 16 acres at Dalton Road, Queen Street, and Rocky Ridge Circle won a unanimous vote of the city planning commissioners.  Dalton Road resident Tim Bowen […]

Government agencies have released their findings in the death of a pilot killed when his small plane crashed last month in rural North Carolina.  Law enforcement believes the victim, John Miller Bofinger, a northern New Jersey resident, originated his flight from the Oconee Regional Airport May 21, but later crashed the Beechcraft 35 into a cornfield and trees after having […]

Look for Walhalla City Council to put together a plan next week as to how the city finds a replacement for Brandon Burton.  The two-year city administrator’s last day on the job is expected to be Thursday, July 27 — before he takes another position in Virginia.  The fact that Walhalla is known to hire from within, Mayor Danny Edwards […]

A motorcyclist has been sent to the hospital — result of a noon hour car-motorcycle accident on the 123 Seneca ByPass.  Casey Bowling, police chief, said the car was turning left in the Commons’ business park.  The wreckage forced a backup of traffic eastbound as far back as near the traffic lights at Seneca Drive.

The campaign to elect South Carolina’s Tim Scott president announces the U-S senator has received more than 140 endorsements from South Carolina elected officials for his candidacy.  Those endorsements, according to the Scott announcement, include an endorsement from Oconee County Councilman Don Mize, first-term councilman from District Three.

The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) is observing National Men’s Health Week by encouraging men to combat preventable health problems and remember the importance of early detection of diseases. Men’s Health Week is June 12-18, concluding on Father’s Day, and is part of International Men’s Health Month. According to data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and […]

Food for thought expressed last week to Oconee County Council during public comment.  Lewis Collins told the council that rising homelessness is fast displacing the condition of roads as the county’s top problem, and he wanted to know what the county fathers are likely to do about it.