Author: Dick Mangrum

A 39 year old Seneca man was arrested yesterday by the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office and charged with Attempted Murder and Possession of a Weapon during Commission of a Violent Crime after Deputies investigated a report of gun shot discharged. Johnny Lamar Ramey was booked into the jail and later, according to the sheriff’s office, arrest warrants were obtained.  The […]

Financial terms such as recession, inflation, and deflation were tossed about during Tom Barkin’s speaking engagement today in Oconee County.  A large audience in the Community Meeting Room of the Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative seemed to hang on a lot of what Barkin, president of the Federal Reserve Bank in Richmond had to say about the economy, where the economy […]

Denise McCormick, chairwoman of the Oconee school trustees, says because the five-member board has yet to discuss the proposed long-range building plans, she’ll be fine to wait as late as January to call for a vote. Last night the trustees heard their top administrators urge a December vote.  “We just need plenty of time to make a decision,” she said […]

The largest population base in Oconee, the Seneca area, has run out of recreation department space, the county school trustees were told last night.  A plea by Lee Sheehan of Seneca requests the board to allocate the current Seneca Middle School buildings and property — once they are no longer needed when the replacement middle school opens next year.  A […]

Oconee School District critic Lynne Martin again questioned the trustees last night as to whether there is, in fact, savings to be realized by closing two elementary schools and combining them into one new school.  She and fellow supporters favor keeping open Tamassee-Salem and separately addressing Keowee Elementary.  Tamassee-Salem supporters contend their 24-year old school is well-kept, the building is […]

The December meeting appears to be targeted for an Oconee school board vote on which long-range building plan the district shall follow.  To the trustees last night Dr. Michael Thorsland, superintendent, made clear his preference for the December agenda to call for a vote.  It’s likely that board discussion will precede the eventual vote as, to date, the trustees have […]

Coroner Karl Addis says autopsy was conducted this morning on Gary Bruce Green, who died Saturday afternoon at his home in Salem.   It was determined Mr. Green died due to smoke inhalation.   His manner of death, Addis says, is classified as accidental.

A creative inquiry class at Clemson University has as a main goal helping students and the public to tell the difference between science and pseudoscience.  That way, health claims carried on social media can be better evaluated.  Elliott Ennis, senior lecturer in the Department of Chemistry, created the class six years ago.  Since then, it has been his passion.  The […]