Author: Dick Mangrum

A move is afoot to rename Seneca’s N. 1st Street for the city’s longtime mayor, Dan Alexander.  101.7/WGOG NEWS has learned that Bruce Cannon, a former mayor, is planning to attend city council’s next meeting to urge the council to name N. 1st the “Dan Alexander Boulevard.”  Alexander is aware of Cannon’s intent and acknowledges some irony in it, as […]

To drive interstate highways safely, alertness is always a pre-requisite for a motorist — especially on South Carolina’s stretch of I-85 where the DOT continues new paving and guardrail work through the end of December.  South Carolina DOT is urging patience on the part of drivers who are requested to slow down and stay alert for the work crews along […]

A $4 million dollar economic investment, promising 200 jobs, has been announced for Anderson’s Pearman Dairy Road.  Mojave Energy Systems is described as a clean technology start-up company that designs and makes next-generation commercial air conditioning systems.  Its target markets are in Texas and the Southeast.  From the Greer inland port, the goal is to reach the customers in one […]

There is a water line break at Wolf Stake Church Road and Pickens Highway. Crews are working and expect to have water restored within two (2) hours (by 3 pm). There is no boil advisory at this time.

When asked, one out of four Clemson students said they had driven after having alcohol, and that was within a 30-day period of taking part in a poll. The Clemson Police Advisory Board received a presentation on underage and high-risk driving.  Some six out of 10 students polled also said that, within a two-week period, they consumed five or more […]

Job seekers who’d be interested in work at a large manufacturing plant near Seneca are invited to take part in a virtual hiring event tomorrow morning. The Seneca location of BASF Environmental Catalyst and Metal Solutions is hiring full-time production technicians and full-time apprentices. Interested applicants can see all open positions in Seneca at www.basf.com/seneca.  Apprentices can count on $22.50 […]

Tim Scott, South Carolina Republican, is a co-sponsor of “Protect Our Bases Act” — a bill that ensures a legislative committee may review foreign land purchases near sensitive military, intelligence, and national laboratory sites by requiring agencies to update and review their locations.  Scott, ranking member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, says, “The Chinese Communist […]

A pothole-plagued county road in the Boone’s Creek Community near Salem is getting attention.  Kyle Reid, director of the county roads and bridges department, says crews were at work yesterday filling potholes on the Ramey Road near the Boone’s Creek Road.

The pantry at Walhalla’s St. Luke Methodist Church includes packaged foods, frozen meat, along with local apples.  This is a free food day at the E. Main Street church this afternoon from 4:30 to 5:30.

Serious discussion is the way the boss of Seneca utilities describes the challenge to satisfy developers of a new and proposed mixed-use development west of the city.  But the new owner of 148 acres held only recently by a South Carolina children’s home is thinking in terms of a combination commercial and residential development off the Sandifer Boulevard.   Bob Faires, […]