Author: Dick Mangrum

The latest set of Walhalla customers’ bills covering monthly water and sewer use contain additional information, but from what 101.7/WGOG NEWS has been told some of the July bills are higher, some lower.  Brandon Burton, city administrator and Walhalla representative to the Oconee Joint Regional Sewer Authority, explains, “The rates on the bills were enacted by OJRSA board on June […]

Perhaps, prodded by the Oconee Republican chairman, the district U-S representative to congress explained his vote last month to raise the debt limit and avoid a financial default.  Jeff Duncan is a conservative, but to some conservatives the bi-partisan agreement to avoid default amounted to a cave-in the quest to tamp down the country’s rising debt.  But “It was a […]

A night of interrupted sleep for West Union and other fire fighters.  At the midnight hour, they were sent to stop a garage fire on Revolutionary Drive near the West Union Road.  No injuries reported.

Most of 120 chairs were full, and some chose to stand, last night in the meeting room of the Walhalla American Legion to hear 3rd District Republican Representative Jeff Duncan speak on a day that, to an extent, rivaled the Columbia area appearance of Democratic President Joe Biden.  Although admittedly jet-lagged, Duncan ran through a series of issues that he […]

Made weary by returning flights across the Pacific and the U-S mainland, South Carolina’s 3rd District U-S representative explained why he missed the Donald Trump rally last Saturday in Pickens.  Duncan had gone to Korea and Japan to investigate those countries energy programs, in particular what the Japanese had learned from the disaster years ago at their Fukushima plant. At […]

The following announcement made this afternoon by Oconee Sheriff’s Office “BURGLARY & ASSAULT AND BATTERY   During the morning of July 6, 2023 the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office received a call concerning an assault and battery that had occurred at a residence on Poplar Springs Rd in the Walhalla, SC area.  Deputies arrived to find a female victim had been […]

An arrest made today in Virginia has a connection with an Oconee crime investigation early this morning on the Poplar Springs Road.  According to Sheriff Crenshaw, a female suspect was stopped in the Commonwealth of Virginia and arrested on Oconee warrants.  Crenshaw identifies the female as the suspect in an attack this morning on a second female, using a pushpin […]

A South Carolina DOT official tells Senator Thomas Alexander, Oconee-Pickens Republican, that his agency and Georgia are getting ready to seek a federal planning grant to be used toward the long-term project to replace the I-85 bridges over Lake Hartwell near the Georgia border.  101.7/WGOG NEWS contacted Alexander about a rumored design that would re-direct part of I-85 on the […]

Usually when a school district even breathes the possibility of closing or combining old schools there’s strong reaction.  But, so far, there has been little comment to the new, long-range building plan of Oconee’s public schools.  “Honestly, hasn’t been a great deal of comments so far,” says Steve Hanvey, associate superintendent.  But there’s still time to register a comment or […]