Author: Dick Mangrum

From Friday through yesterday, Walhalla fire fighters have responded to multiple calls. They include, backing up their West Union counterparts yesterday at a structure fire on N., Burns Mill Road.  On Saturday afternoon they stopped a brush fire on the Lake Jemiki Road.  They were busy Friday afternoon when wind blew down trees on Spring Street causing an electric power […]

A public comment speaker at last night’s Oconee School Board meeting complained the quest to win in scholastic athletics should not carry weight over a child’s faith.  David Hoodenpyle complained to the trustees of an instance in which, he said, a coach denied a child from missing a religious activity for athletic practice.  Hoodenpyle spoke at length at the public […]

A Mercedes van pulled up yesterday to the Sandifer Boulevard property designed for Oconee’s next shopping center.  101.7/WGOG NEWS received information to indicate one-half dozen men, apparently the engineering type, carried rolled up papers.  Speculation that they may have had site maps or engineer drawings.  Last week Jamie Gilbert, Oconee’s economic development director, ventured an opinion that official word will […]

A residential-commercial project that opponents fear will change Clemson for the worse received final city council approval.  Like the first reading two weeks ago, the council vote was 4 in favor, 3 opposed.  One of the council opponents, Catherine Watt, failed to get her colleagues to buy some time, by sending the planned development application back to the city planning […]

A ribbon cut symbolically opened the new Seneca Middle School on the Wells Highway, to be ready in August for the 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students now housed in an old building on WS 4th Street. It’s likely an understatement to say that those who toured the new  school are enthralled by what the public dollar has provided.  Credit […]

Administrators warned Oconee school trustees that, unless teacher pay is raised, the teacher shortage will only worsen.  Of two options, the trustees gave first reading  last night to a new spending request that’ll generate $55.6 million in local support.  The local support is dependent on the County Council which tonight will see the district’s preliminary budget numbers. The presentations last […]

General Sessions Judge Scott Sprouse began qualifying the jury this morning for the start of an Oconee Courthouse trial.  Arrested by the sheriff’s office in April last year, William David Gunn faces the following charges burglary first degree, resisting arrest, malicious injury to property, and possession of tools capable of being used in a crime.  From the pool of jurors, […]