Author: Dick Mangrum

Celia Myers is receiving a three-year contract at $80 thousand dollars a year as Walhalla’s new city administrator.   Mayor Danny Edwards says the city council this week agreed unanimously to the Myers contract.  

An arrest has been made, by the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office, in an ongoing shoplifting investigation where over $10,000 in merchandise was stolen this summer from the Ulta Beauty location in Hartwell Village near Seneca. The Sheriff’s Office announced the arrest of 36 year old Sonia Nuta, of Club Place NW in Duluth, GA, on a charge of Shoplifting with […]

The annual, historical Miss Oktoberfest Pageant will be held Sunday, October 1st, at Walhalla Middle School, at 4:00 P.M.  The pageant is open to young ladies who attend high school in Oconee County, and Miss Oktoberfest will receive a $500 scholarship.  Applications are now being accepted and can be found online at GCPageants.com or in the guidance office of the […]

In response to a request from the Oconee Republican Party, the county attorney has weighed in on the legality or appropriateness of the county’s governing body accepting an invitation to appear in a town hall style meeting, sought by the GOP to further highlight the process that the county uses to arrive at an annual budget.  During the discussion of […]

A car involved in a wreck required a tow at mid-morning today from I-85 in Oconee County.  The Fair Play Volunteer Department responded to an accident involving a car that hit the back side of a tractor trailer truck near the two-mile marker. While public safety responders worked the accident scene, travel was reduced to one lane in one direction.  […]

The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) and the South Carolina Department of Education (SCDE) are joining forces to make opioid overdose reversal medication available to schools across the state.  Earlier this year the South Carolina Legislature passed House Bill 4122, which Governor McMaster signed into law, authorizing DHEC, in consultation with SCDE, to create and update […]

In a county experiencing a building boom, Oconee’s codes department is described severely under-manned, for which appreciation and understanding were given during last night’s county council meeting.  Home builder Chuck Pinion was complimentary of the codes department employees considering their busy work schedule, but he brought to the attention of last night’s meeting that delays in getting the codes department […]

Oconee’s chief recruiter for economic development, Jamie Gilbert of the Oconee Economic Alliance, requested the county fathers last night to OK changes in the inducement terms that are to help bring a new manufacturer to the county’s Information and Technology Park on highway 11.  The company is Meyn America, a distributor of poultry processing equipment.  Meyn is set to occupy […]

More than two dozen Oconeeans were in the audience last night in Seneca to learn what can be done to ensure personal safety in the event of an active shooter incident.  John Hester of West Union and family were among those there to learn best practices for self-defense and how to comport themselves following an incident.  The Oconee School District’s […]