Author: Dick Mangrum

Around 7:15 this morning, we expect the official measurement from Walhalla’s weather watcher as to what yesterday afternoon’s storm dumped.  Already an image provided by the Salem mayor, Lynn Towe, shows a gauge filled with more than 3.5″.  Between Seneca and Clemson, however, a lot of wind, but apparently little measured precipitation.

Ideas for Seneca’s next ten years were collected at city hall yesterday by members of an outside consultant firm that has been hired by the city to prepare a new comprehensive plan for the city.  Some 20 to 30 people took advantage of a five-hour window to register comments about what the direction they’d like to see Seneca follow.  Ed […]

A Seneca woman’s friends and relatives will take part in a drive-thru on the premises of an assisted living facility on Friday as a way to celebrate her 100th birthday.  Bonnie Moses is a 10-year resident at Seneca Health and Rehabilitation and, according to great granddaughter Tiffany Jenkins, checked herself into the facility on her own, realizing that she had […]

Besides managing multiple New York Yankee teams to world championships, Manager Casey Stengal was affectionately known for hilarious double-talk.  Such as “Old timers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike.  If you can walk away from them, they’re successful.”  Successful take-offs and landings are what everyone wants at the Oconee Regional Airport—especially during busy college football Saturdays.  Amanda Brock, county administrator, […]

Property code violations are being alleged against two Townville community properties.  Oconee County has gone to court in an attempt to enforce the International Property Maintenance Code at two addresses on Timberlake One Circle near SC 24.  Richard and Brinda Nix are named defendants in injunction requests made to Oconee Common Pleas Court.  The legal complaints naming the two Timberlake […]

An Oconee man, released by state prison for community supervision, was taken back to jail Friday when the Oconee Sheriff’s Office arrested him in an investigation of what the sheriff’s office says were the solicitation of sexually explicit images from a teenager.  The sheriff’s office announced the charge of criminal solicitation of a minor against Shane Adam Burdette and confirmed […]

On a  hot afternoon, fire fighters near Seneca battled a camper fire near the Wells Highway-Shiloh Road 4-way stop.  Chief Caudill of Seneca FD says no one hurt.

The following statement this afternoon:  “The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Westminster man last Friday on a charge of Criminal Solicitation of a Minor.   43 year old Shane Adam Burdette was booked into the Oconee County Detention Center on August 26th at around 4:17pm.  At this time, Burdette remains in jail on a $50,000 surety bond.   The […]