Author: Dick Mangrum

Establishing limits to raising Oconee County’s budget was adopted last night in a 3-2 county council vote.  Once again, the divide was Durham, Hart, and Mize in favor and Davis and Elliott opposed.  The debate got started last night when public comment speaker Jim Mann criticized Council Chairman Durham’s moves which he likened to flipping monies from one part of […]

Generations of Tamassee-Salem, including Eagle Ridge, students returned last weekend for their school reunion.  A story in the “The Old Salem Post” depicts the good time that many of the alumni enjoyed.  They enjoyed food and tours of the building that holds memories of their youth.  Nine members of the 1972 Tamassee-Salem High graduating class attended.  Many of them this […]

A major TV network deployed cameras and personnel recently to the Oconee Courthouse for proceedings to follow developments in the state’s cases against multiple defendants arrested in methamphetamine trafficking investigation called “Las Senoritas.”   The videos shot February 1 in the fourth floor courtroom at Walhalla lead Oconee court officers to believe that, at some point, they’ll be part of an […]

A wholesale distributor of fluid power products is expanding in Oconee County.  According to announcement from the governor’s office, Dynamic Fluid Components at West Union will invest $4.8 million into the expansion and create 10 new jobs.  Dynamic Fluid offers products that include hydraulic motors, gear pumps and pressure gauges.  It counts two thousand customers in the U-S, Canada, and […]

A 43-year-old Seneca woman has been arrested and charged with exploitation of a vulnerable adult.  The arrest of Jennifer Helen Wilks was announced by the state attorney general, Alan Wilson.  Wilks was jailed at Anderson on Friday.  According to the announcement, an investigation by the Oconee Sheriff’s Office and the state Medicaid Fraud Control Unit showed that between November 2022 […]

Two Clemson alumnae are training to be the youngest and fastest female athletes to row the Pacific this summer, and the Robert Brooks Sports Science Institute this month will welcome them for a campus speaking.  Anna McLean and Jenny D’Anthony of United Row present “Rowing the Pacific:  Record-Breaking Clemson Grads Turning Dreams into Reality.”  The two former members of the […]

The Betty B. Watkins Seed Library is restocked with seeds for the spring planting season.  Oconeeans, at no charge, may pick up seeds during regular hours of the Westminster Library or the Oconee History Museum in Walhalla. Since 2021, the Watkins Seed Library has given away more than 10 thousand packs of seeds to county residents.

Clemson residents expressed disfavor last night with a proposed housing project in their neighborhood. The project, named “The Hub,” has been met with resistance from the local community. The plan includes the construction of 450 student housing units and retail space in the Uptown District, specifically near Keowee Trail and Wall Street. During a public hearing, the community members made […]