Author: Dick Mangrum

Work gets underway tomorrow to turn a one-block section of Walhalla’s S. Catherine Street into one-way only.  It’s that part of S. Catherine between Main Street and S. Broad.  Celia Myers, city administrator, predicts the project, with its October 5 completion date, will be done in time for two October events:  the Merchant’s Market and the Oktoberfest.  While the work […]

A candidate for Walhalla City Council in November has withdrawn from the field of hopefuls.  The office of Oconee elections announces the withdrawal of Freddie Lopez.  Nonetheless, the timing is such that Lopez’s name will remain on the November 7 ballot.  Signs to indicate Lopez is no longer running will be posted at the polling location.

    102 – 200 & 103 – 111 Kelly Road, Fort Hill Commons, Tillman Place and College Heights Boulevard The City of Clemson Utilities Department repeals the boil water advisory for residents of the above listed streets in the City of Clemson, located in Pickens County.  Residents no longer need to vigorously boil their water prior to drinking or […]

Oconee’s five school trustees for a second month have heard pleas to resist combining the Tamassee-Salem and Keowee elementary schools into one new school, at a new location.  101.7/WGOG NEWS asked board chairwoman Denise McCormick if either she or her colleagues have been impressed enough to accede to the wishes as expressed by Tamassee-Salem supporters.  McCormick yesterday said, “We are […]

The “Freedom to Breathe Act” is an anti-mask bill supported by Jeff Duncan, the 3rd District U-S representative, along with the lawmaker’s House colleague, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia.  In a statement from Washington today, Duncan said, “Americans refuse to be forced to wear a mask again.”  Health authorities, such as South Carolina’s chief of epidemiology, say wearing a mask […]

The defense in Prichard vs. Oconee Sheriff’s Office and Sheriff Crenshaw requests the Common Pleas Court to dismiss the plaintiff’s allegations of jail overcrowding and supervision and training of jail workers.  The civil complaint for Christopher Wade Prichard, who was a county inmate in 2021, was filed in July.  Last week, on behalf of the defendants, an attorney for the […]

On next week’s executive session agenda of the county fathers are three code-named economic development projects:  “Wash”, “Duel”, and “Parallel”. And they appear on the county council agenda at a time when some officials believe Jamie Gilbert, the Oconee Economic Alliance recruiter, is hot on the trail for new economic development projects, including a large one for the empty Golden […]

Among the inter-government agreements to be acted on next week by the Oconee County Council is one that’ll continue to send cross-trained personnel from the Westminster Fire Department into unincorporated areas around the city to provide the following services:  fire, medical, hazmat, and rescue.  Westminster City Council signed off this week on a new arrangement that, if the county agrees, […]

Parts of SC 11 between S. Union and the interchange at West-Oak High School were reduced to one-lane yesterday afternoon, as workers from King Asphalt were applying a new asphalt cover to a busy two-lane highway marked by surface fractures.  King Asphalt’s Marty McKee says it is a re-surfacing job that’ll require between two and four more weeks.  McKee is […]