Author: Dick Mangrum

A long-standing downtown Clemson building will soon be no more and, in its place, according to city officials, will come another hotel.  The former white-columned, Fort Hill Federal Savings and Loan on College Street is being prepared for demolition.  According to City Hall, a contractor has secured the necessary permit.

Seneca planning commissioners cast two votes last night on re-zoning applications. Only one of them was conclusive. In a 3 to 2 vote, the planning commissioners recommended an R-15 zone for ES 6th, S. Walnut, and S. Cherry properties for which Josh Thomas is considering building single-family homes. Earlier last night the commission deadlocked 2-2-1 (with one abstention) on a […]

Now that Oktoberfest is in the books for another year, the candidates for Walhalla public office are ramping up their campaigns for the November 5 election.  Candidate signs are returning to the Main Street grass medians.  And tonight the first of two Walhalla political forums will take place at 6:30 at the Depot.  The two-hour event will be divided into […]

An 18-month prison term was ordered today in the General Sessions Court in Walhalla to a former hospital nurse whose use of painkillers later led to illegal drug complaints that made their way to the narcotics unit of the county Sheriff’s Office. A sheriff’s officer called defendant Candace McMahan “a user and a distributor” at her home on Brookwood Drive […]

A York County man has been enjoying vacations in Oconee County for nearly 25 years, but he’s now re-thinking whether it’s safe to come back after he and his family were victimized by crime. After fishing in an upper Oconee creek in May, Christopher Walden came back to his vehicle and discovered a man breaking in. Deputy Solicitor Lindsey Simmons […]

David Vela, newly named deputy director exercising the authority of the director of the National Park Service, will discuss how he plans to lead the park service into its second century at the 2019 George B. Hartzog Jr. Lecture this week in Clemson. The lecture will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts at […]

Westminster city councilman and restaurateur Yousef Mefleh has jumped on the opportunity to promote a first-time festival this weekend in his town that will explore the folklore of a hairy creature called Big Foot.” Mefleh has declared his E. Main Street restaurant a “Big Foot Crossing” and went so far as to commission a New York City artist to draw […]

It has been said that you can rest assured that in Texas every county has a Dairy Queen restaurant.  That’s not the case in South Carolina, although a spokeswoman for the American Dairy Queen Corporation in Bloomington, Minnesota told 101.7/WGOG NEWS that her company plans a new push into South Carolina, in particular the Columbia area.  A large dirt moving […]

South Carolina has a law that allows police who enter a home and seize drugs, but that’s not all. The civil asset forfeiture law also allows the cops to take other personal property. A court has addressed a challenge to the law and, on Friday, 10th Circuit Solicitor David Wagner commented on the law, during an interview with 101.7/WGOG NEWS. […]

The buzz among residents of two home developments between Seneca and Clemson is that there is a bear roaming their neighborhoods.  The bear was reported both in the Millbrook subdivision and in a development on the nearby Davis Creek Road, believed to be Wexford.  It’s in the Wexford, according to an unverified report received by 101.7/WGOG NEWS, that the bear […]