Author: Dick Mangrum

Rare does a young person go into sudden cardiac arrest and die.  But it happens.  And that’s why a Seneca woman who lost a son to cardiac arrest is calling for early age screenings to detect the potential for future heart problems.  Javaris Benson died in 2017 while playing pickup basketball at a college campus.  Javaris’s mother, Lekesha Benson, says […]

If there’s final approval to the budget proposal unveiled last night, total dollars for a new year of public education in Oconee will reach an all-time high.  When you add up the local, state, and federal monies, the next Oconee school budget will reach $122 million.  The district’s chief financial officer, Jay Schickling, narrated the numbers that administrators believe are […]

During Earth Month, Clemson University calls attention to more than two dozen of the largest documented trees in South Carolina.  They are known as Champion Trees.  Species include oaks, cypress, ash, fir, mimosa, and pine.  And some are part of the canopy of the Botanical Garden or in the thick woods of the Clemson Experimental Forest.  In plain sight on […]

Fire Safe South Carolina looks on Oconee County favorably.  Oconee Emergency Services, along with 131 other fire and rescue departments across the state, has been designated a “Fire Safe South Carolina” Community.  County emergency personnel finished 200 hours’ training to improve data quality, in-home safety visits, and learn additional skills in assessment and risk reduction. Each agency newly-designated as a […]

Representatives of the engineering company Bolton & Menk are atop the agenda for the April meeting of Westminster City Council at 6 tomorrow night at the city fire department, for the purpose of presenting a master plan for the downtown.

The pre-meeting agenda indicates Oconee County fathers are primed for final action tomorrow to lend a hand to a Texas developer to build large housing complexes inside the county, just east of Clemson University.  The third reading is planned tomorrow night on ordinance 2022-32, an arrangement with a project previously known as Greenpaw to permit “certain payments in lieu of […]

Jim Mann overcame a challenge and held onto the chair of the Oconee Republican Party.  In balloting Saturday, the county’s conventioneers gave him a 75-vote margin over his challenger, Roel Cruz.  Some 241 Republicans were seated and deemed qualified Saturday morning to vote to fill the offices of their county party for 2023.  Other results:  Rachel Moore prevailed over Karen […]