Author: Dick Mangrum

A contract worth $745 thousand has been awarded to J-Davis Construction to build the new Vangeli’s restaurant on Seneca’s Ramcat Alley. The job was authorized during the annual meeting yesterday of the Seneca Improvements Corporation, on a recommendation by Scott Moulder, corporation president and city administrator. J-Davis’s bid was the highest of three received, but Moulder said the state licenses […]

Summer recess ends Monday for Oconee public school students, and the district superintendent says between 800 and 850 teachers will be ready to help turn minds into the task of learning for a new year.  With the return of the yellow school buses countywide, along with general school traffic, the general public is reminded to be careful around bus stops, […]

A young Seneca man remained jailed today on the charge that he was the one who pulled off a burglary this month at the Fishing Hole store near Lake Hartwell. William Kyle Melvin was jailed today under a surety bond of $60 thousand to cover the charge of burglary second degree, petty larceny, and malicious injury to real property. Meantime, […]

Nearly six-year old theft charges in Oconee County have landed a Lavonia, Georgia woman in the Oconee jail. Arrest warrants were served last weekend on Candance Nicole Tukes charging petty larceny. Tukes is accused in 2013 of using a debit card belonging to someone else to buy an item for $1.58; allegedly took a wallet belonging to a second person […]

Public safety responders, including those sent by the Walhalla Fire Department, made quick work last night of a search and rescue operations at the Stumphouse Mountain Park.  Two people became temporarily unaccounted for during an outing.  But they were located safely about 9 o’clock last night at the bottom of Issaqueena Falls, after a search and rescue operation that started […]

A trail coordinator says as more and more mileage is added to the Palmetto Trail in Oconee County, Walhalla’s Stumphouse Mountain Bike Park will become “a nationally significant facility.” Rob Achenberg made the prediction during last night’s meeting of the Partners for Progress. He said a lengthier section of the trail will be ready for use this fall and soon […]

A Walhalla official believes it’s not a stretch that a movement can materialize over a period of years in which some of the city’s public lands can be converted to greenways. And those greenways, according to City Administrator Brent Taylor, can serve to connect the Palmetto Trail from the Stumphouse Tunnel Park to the city’s downtown. Taylor told members of […]

A group that strives for a better quality of Walhalla life will enter the political arena this fall when it plays host to a forum for the men and women who qualify as candidates for the city’s 2019 election.  At its meeting last night, the Partners for Progress voted to host the forum likely some night in October, in advance […]