Author: Dick Mangrum

On property bordering an E. Main Street curve at Seneca, there is word that businessmen intend to build what’s called a clearinghouse for people in need.  According to Utica activist Mary Beth Van Pelt, two businessmen envision a facility to help troubled people find out where they might find lodging and provide information on finding work.  Van Pelt calls it […]

Thirteen former members of the Wade Hampton Golf Club have taken the Cashiers, North Carolina club to court.  The 13, who resigned their memberships, are alleging fraud and breach of contract and demand equity redemption monies (a total of $698 thousand) they claim they are owed to them by the Wade Hampton club.  Their lawsuit, in the U-S District Court […]

“Vacant properties have a greater potential than occupied properties to cause significant and costly problems for the City.”  That’s the start of the explanation that Westminster’s administration is using to propose a registry system that’ll compel property owners to register their properties with the city.  It’s a recommendation that’ll go before the city council during its August meeting at 6 […]

In front of Oconee’s policymakers for sewer today is a proposition to allow the executive director to negotiate a deal with Weston & Sampson engineers to do a “Central Oconee County Sewer Master Plan” using the same methodology as the Fair Play Area Sewer Basin Plan.  The end game apparently is to remove politics and replace them with what’s called […]

An I-85 accident at 2 o’clock Saturday morning in Anderson County took the lives of two people from Greenville County.  Brent Simpson, deputy coroner, identified the dead as Tracina Yvette Young, 47-year-old Greenville resident, and Frederick Leorande Styles, 51-year-old Woodruff resident.  According to the coroner’s office, a tractor trailer, driven by Young, was northbound headed back to Greenville with a […]

101.7/WGOG NEWS has learned of an incident this afternoon on Lake Keowee near Salem.  At Fall Creek Landing #2, a source tells us, a child has been hurt by a boat propeller.  A medical helicopter transport is being arranged at this hour (3 pm.)

A former pastry chef has had a connection with the Utica community for 20 years — back to the time when a stake was driven into the heart of that area with the closing of a 100-year old textile manufacturing plant.  Mary Beth Van Pelt quickly detected the problem of some pet dogs who, for whatever reasons, found themselves neglected […]