Author: Dick Mangrum

Prisma Health announced today that it is collaborating with Ethicon Inc., part of the Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies, to make and distribute a ventilator expansion device, called the VESper™ Ventilator Expansion Splitter. The VESper Ventilator Expansion Splitter is authorized for emergency use only to allow a single ventilator to be fitted with the Ventilator Splitter to be used […]

On April Fool’s day last week, someone grabbed a set of keys and took off running from the Seneca Wal-Mart. Oconee Sheriff’s Office describes the thief as a male with dread locks and a face mask who took from the pocket of a Walmart employee the set of keys for the electronics case. The theft occurred Wednesday afternoon. The sheriff’s […]

The annual meeting of the Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative will take place on Thursday, April 23, but there are changes required by the health concerns and meeting limits brought on by COVID-19. This year, instead of an in-person annual meeting, special drive-thru registration, voting, and gift giveaways will be conduct by the Oconee and Pickens offices. The special drive-through will […]

How safe is handling mail during the pandemic is a question raised by a 101.7/WGOG listener, who says he has seen or heard little about this.  We have a found a report that aired on ABC which quotes health experts as saying the risks are very low that COVID-19 will remain on envelopes or packages and in fact anyone who […]

A question from a listener got us to thinking here about something we had only heard about in the past, and only heard very little. The listener’s question wanted to know the name of a drive-in movie theatre that operated in the 1950s on SC 183/the Walhalla-Westminster Highway. It took a few phone calls to find the answer. Reading from […]

A special meeting of the Seneca City Council will take place at 5:30 tomorrow evening at City Hall. Agenda items are body camera contract for the police department and the first reading of an ordinance that re-finances a combined utility revenue bond. On-site social distancing will be in place at this meeting.

So far, in the nationwide effort to count how many there are of us, Oconee County numbers trail both state and federal responses. By yesterday, 38% of Oconeeans who’ve been contacted have completed the Census form questions. And, of those 38%, Oconeeans along Lake Keowee are leading the way. Those at Fall Creek, the Cliffs, and Keowee Key are at […]

The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) today announced 132 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 2,049, and those who have died to 44. These additional deaths occurred in three individuals who were elderly. Two of the […]

The sirens that are to sound on Wednesday morning are another in a regularly scheduled test of those emergency warning devices within a 10-mile radius of the Oconee Nuclear Station. According to a Duke spokeswoman, because of the pandemic it is important to point out that the wailing of those sirens—at 11:50 Wednesday morning—pertain to the scheduled practice run of […]

Bill Sandifer, Seneca’s state representative, is aware of those newly-announced claims for unemployment compensation. But, for now, he’s confident that South Carolina does have the money for the claimants who qualify. Should the state’s pool of jobless funds deplete South Carolina, he says, can turn to the federal government. Part of the federal relief package has money to dole out […]