Author: Dick Mangrum

A player in the $3 million deal to make way for a book distribution center near Westminster says a lot of credit goes to Julian Davis, the District 4 councilman who contributed assistance to make the deal work.  (Details on the sale of a former manufacturing building on the Sandifer Blvd. are available in a separate WGOG post and can […]

Word is received at 101.7/WGOG NEWS of an accident on 123/Sandifer Blvd., in front of Wal-Mart.  And a medi-helicopter appears to have landed in the parking lot of Tri-County ACE for the purpose of transporting a wreck victim.

The long-vacated manufacturing building just to the east of Westminster corporate limits has changed hands and will have a new purpose.  The purchase of the former Taylor Made golf equipment plant building was a $3 million transaction, according to realtor Anna Powell of Powell Real Estate.  In an interview this morning, Powell declined to identify the buyer, but described him […]

The county attorney for Oconee, David Root, believes negotiations between the county and the municipalities to effect new fire agreements to cover the unincorporated five-mile radius of the cities are in good shape.  Nevertheless, Root won’t provide further details of where things stand — ahead of what’s believed to be a July 1 deadline to get things done.

To observe, the Juneteenth holiday offices of the city Clemson will be closed on Monday.  Meantime, the Pickens County municipality wishes a Happy Father’s Day.

A Thursday afternoon fire within the Walhalla Fire Department coverage area was confined to the kitchen of a home near Little Country Lane.

Firemen are famous for rescuing cats from trees.  They’ll also climb a ladder to free a tree cutter from a bucket truck.  That’s what happened yesterday afternoon on Coffee Road.  A man was cutting trees perched from a bucket truck 15-20 feet high.  His machinery malfunctioned and the Walhalla Fire Department came to the rescue.

The South Carolina 3rd District representative Jeff Duncan, in whose district is Duke Energy’s three Oconee nuclear reactors, delivered the opening remarks this week for a hearing of a House energy subcommittee.  Republican Duncan chairs the Subcommittee on Energy, Climate, and Grid Security.  Wednesday’s hearing was titled, “Oversight of NRC: Ensuring Efficient and Predictable Nuclear Safety Regulation for a Prosperous […]

The Northeast Georgia Animal Shelter at Lavonia, overcrowded with dogs in need of homes, has been forced to close for two weeks.  They have detected the deadly parvovirus.  Lake Hartwell Radio WLHR quotes the shelter director as saying one day after litters of puppies had been sent to the Greenville Humane Society the puppies broke with parvo.  No other dogs […]