Author: Dick Mangrum

Speculation has it now that Oconee will see a new major shopping center west of Seneca limits that the property in the vicinity of the Sandifer Boulevard will see increased value.  Sources have confirmed to 101.7/WGOG NEWS that 2.65 acres sold last week for a $300 thousand price – a triangular piece of property that fronts Sandifer Boulevard and the […]

Monday is Labor Day — a national holiday.  And a number of government services are adjusting their schedules.  All Oconee libraries are closed Saturday through Monday.  Book returns slots remain open and due dates are being adjusted. Oconee’s recycling centers and the C&D Landfill are closed on Monday.  They will do business on regular schedule Saturday.  After Labor Day on […]

Today’s agenda for Oconee’s Commission on Parks, Recreation and Tourism indicates there could be votes on as many as 13 separate applications for grant funds.  Interests representing the county and its three largest municipalities are among the applicants who go before the seven-member group which dispenses monies to advance local tourism efforts and attractions.  Today’s meeting is set for the […]

Senator Lindsey Graham was part of a bi-partisan, bicameral delegation that met with the president of Egypt.  About the meeting with Egypt’s Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, the South Carolina Republican said, “Egypt has long been a strategic partner to the United States and has benefitted from its peace treaty with the State of Israel.  Looking forward, I was pleased to hear […]

A North Carolina couple have been arrested in Oconee County, in an incident in which the sheriff’s office discovered of two people inside a church building — there without the authorization of the church.  The two people were charged with utilities theft of electric current and third degree burglary after a sheriff’s sergeant found them on Monday inside a building […]

Flushing water mains improve water quality by removing sediment that slowly builds up at the bottom of the main over time.  It’s why the utilities department of the city of Clemson on Friday will flush the water mains, generally, for most neighborhoods, between 12 am and 5 am.  Water is sometimes discolored after water main cleaning, but the city says […]

Seneca’s utilities director couched his language when replying to a councilman’s question about the size of the city’s reserve electric transformers — which would be tapped if there were ever a disaster, such as the 2020 EF3 tornado that hit Seneca.  Bob Faires, utilities director, says the problem of adequate reserves of transformers is not just a Seneca problem, it’s […]

Mayor Dan Alexander of Seneca welcomed two Oconee County officials to last night’s city hall meetings, and then invited them to join the city council as it again in closed session addressed the matter of a new fire contract with the county.  So into the council’s private meeting room went Matthew Durham, the county council chairman, and Don Mize, Seneca’s […]