Author: Dick Mangrum

If nature continues to cooperate, a long stretch of U-S 123 in Oconee County will soon have a smoother surface for cars and trucks, small and large, to ride. Drier weather, combined with less traffic on the roads, is helping the general contractor in its project to re-surface 123, the Sandifer Boulevard from the Richland Road thru Westminster downtown. Marty […]

Seneca has now extended its office and building closing through April 30.  At that time, there’s to be a re-evaluation.  Meantime, the essential services of police, fire, and public works continue. The April meeting of the city council will take place at 5:30 pm Tuesday, the 14 at City Hall, but social distancing will be followed in the meeting room.  […]

101.7/WGOG NEWS recently reported that Oconee United Ministries, formerly called the Oconee Presbyterian Service Fund, is among several social service agencies able to help those in need at this time.  We have been set straight by the group’s leader, Dee French of Chickasaw Point.  Because the group is made up mostly of volunteers that are considered high-risk for the Covid-19 […]

A Census worker says, so far, the Oconee response rate to the mailed out population question is 40% which ranks the county 26th among the 46 counties.  David Carfolite continues to urge Oconeeans to take the few minutes required to do their civic duty. The response rate from three Lake Keowee communities is so high that Carfolite says if they […]

The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) today announced 241 new cases of the novel coronavirus COVID-19, including four additional deaths. This brings the total number of people confirmed to have COVID-19 in South Carolina to 2,792, and those who have died to 67. The additional deaths occurred in four elderly patients with underlying health conditions. The […]

A caller to 101.7/WGOG expressed concern this afternoon having heard that a wing of Seneca’s Lila Doyle facility is being changed to accommodate COVID-19 patients.  We immediately contacted Prisma Health and have received the following announcement: “In accordance with new federal regulations and out of an abundance of caution, Seneca-based Lila Doyle has retrofitted an area of its facility as […]

A West Union man who is accused of breaking drug laws over a two-year period has been moved from a Georgia jail to the Oconee County jail. According to a report from the Oconee Sheriff’s Office today, Jamie Charles Harvey was booked into the Oconee jail Wednesday afternoon, after having been picked up by Oconee officers at the Jackson County, […]

Only one full day since city leaders cast their vote, Walhalla has been flooded by applications for business assistance grants from the city’s Downtown Development Corporation. So far, according to what the city administrator said today, nearly 20 applications have been received for the available $300 dollar grants. That would be about one-half of the potential number of businesses who […]

Updated South Carolina unemployment numbers are astounding, when you compare them to the numbers of first-time claims that were filed only three weeks ago. During a webinar staged this morning by the Oconee Chamber of Commerce, State Senator Thomas Alexander announced that claims statewide have ballooned from nearly 65 thousand last week to 85 thousand this week. The Oconee-Pickens lawmaker […]