Author: Dick Mangrum

Unless you have business in Clemson one week from tomorrow, you might want to avoid Clemson when the Tigers open their season with a night game on Thursday, August 29.  City of Clemson has announced that City Hall offices will close at 1 o’clock on Game Day “due to a concern of increased traffic as the afternoon progresses.”

Today’s bill collectors at the counter at Walhalla City Hall, at times, have a difficult and thankless job. If someone can’t meet his or her monthly obligation, tempers can flare. Councilman David Underwood requests water customers to be considerate and remember that the policies the City Hall counter staff enforces were made by the city’s elected officials. Underwood says the […]

A newly-finished building on the campus of Tri-County Technical College will train employees for Arthrex, the new orthopedic medical device plant in the Anderson County community of Sandy Springs. It is an 8,500 square foot building completed by contractor J-Davis Construction of Oconee and Anderson counties. The contractor overcame design changes and inclement weather to deliver the building in what’s […]

ACI Plastics South on the Sandifer Boulvard 20 will be bringing more investment and jobs to Oconee County. But how much and how many hasn’t yet been announced. The County Council on Tuesday approved on first reading an ordinance amending the county’s original fee-in-lieu of taxes agreement with the company to reflect the new investment. According to county attorney David […]

Walhalla’s David Underwood will step away from city government when his city council term expires at the end of the year. Underwood left last night’s meeting with some satisfaction that he will have helped instigate policy changes that will relax the penalties faced by water customers who miss payments, as well as make bill-paying an easier options, especially for those […]

Walhalla’s community depot is a popular place for meetings, weddings, and other events, but it can be hard a place to hear what’s being said. The city council last night directed the city administrator to obtain cost estimates for a sound system inside the former train depot converted to a public meeting place. Mayor Edwards said an example of what […]

Between 200 and 300 motorcyclists roared thru Seneca yesterday morning, and they weren’t part of the recent Hell’s Angels rally staged at Clemson.  According to the Seneca police, the choppers that made their way east on the 123 By-Pass during the 8 o’clock hour yesterday morning represented the American Legion Post 347 in Lady Lake, Florida.  That legion post claims […]

Donnie Sears, who lives on the Mount Nebo Church Road, went to Tuesday’s meeting of the Oconee County Council with fire in his eye, but came away with little satisfaction and hope for solving a problem involving a construction project at the county airport that he says plagues the church and its community. Speaking before the Council, Sears lodged a […]

Fire this afternoon destroyed a barn on the Cleveland Pike Road between Westminster and Georgia.  Fire fighters requested an ambulance and medical personnel to protect crews from the effects of fighting a fire in the warm temperatures.

At the height of last night’s storm, three Westminster transformers became disabled from a broken pole caused by high winds.  Lightning also plagued Westminster’s situation last night.  The outages were widespread: 300 customers lost service.  By 8 this morning, the number of outages were down to 13–all residential.