Author: Dick Mangrum

The mayor in Hartwell, Georgia on social media announced the closing for good of a bar and grill where last week two people were shot dead.  WLHR quoted the post of Hartwell Mayor Brandon Johnson as follows:  “The City of Hartwell received all paperwork confirming the closure….The owner voluntarily forfeited the license following the notification of the hearing.”  The state […]

A circuit judge ruled today against an appeal by members of an Oconee family who felt aggrieved by a county zoning decision affecting property near Lake Keowee.  An order by Judge Cordell Maddox filed today in the Common Pleas Court denies the appeal by members of the Ratliff family, owners of land on Ellenburg Road.  Maddox ruled that a decision […]

Good riddance to those taste and odor issues that have beset Pioneer Rural Water—especially since the Oconee-Anderson supplier started to produce its own water three years ago.  Word from Terry Pruitt, Pioneer GM, is that they’ve cease and have departed at least for the rest of this year.  The expense to treat the raw Lake Hartwell water supply is a […]

Jim Lovinggood, president/CEO of Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative, devotes his current South Carolina Co-Op news column to the financial pressures that the multi-county electric power supplier is experiencing during the pandemic and a time of supply chain delays.  But, BREC spokesman Terry Ballenger, makes clear that the Pickens-based cooperative is not approaching the time where it should consider raising retail […]

Rescue divers from Oconee County tried but failed to open the doors to the plane that remains tangled among tree branches in Lake Hartwell water at Hart County, Georgia.  And today or tomorrow NTSB crews return to try to retrieve the body of the pilot.  Authorities are confident they know the identity of the pilot flying from Florida to South […]

Two high school students from within the service territory of the Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative were part of a trip this summer to Washington, DC.  Logan Addis of Walhalla High School and Addison Wilson of Pendleton High School, along with 33 other South Carolina students, learned how government works, started their own cooperative, and produced their own podcasts.  A photo […]

A report credited this morning to the Washington Post quotes President Biden saying “a tentative” deal has been reached to avert the potential of, what’s feared, a freight railroad strike that would cripple the country’s supply chain.  But in the walkup to tomorrow’s deadline, all long-distance AMTRAK trains have been canceled.  Included is the passenger train that runs between north […]