Author: Dick Mangrum

Seneca’s 2020 tornado damaged the city’s disc golf course. The job to repair will go to McAllister’s Grading.  That decision reached during last night’s city council meeting.

With only four members who meet in a small meeting room to represent their town, West Union Town Council meetings are often informal, relaxed and filled with banter common to small town government.  And that’s quite OK according to a visitor from Columbia who was asked to evaluate whether West Union follows proper meeting procedures.  At the invitation of Mayor […]

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) today announced it has signed a cooperative agreement with South Carolina under the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program (LFPA). Through LFPA, the South Carolina Department of Agriculture seeks to purchase and distribute locally grown, produced, and processed food from underserved producers. “USDA is excited to partner with South […]

Two men are billed as special guests for this evening’s July meeting of the West Union Town Council.  Chris Eleazer of the Joint Regional Sewer Authority will discuss and answer questions about the authority which operates Oconee’s sewer service; Jeff Shacker of the state Municipal Association will explain to the mayor and council the proper procedures for meetings.

The police chief in Seneca, Casey Bowling, would like the public to be aware that someone is falsely posing as a Seneca policeman on the telephone.  This is a scam, Bowling says.  No one from the Seneca police will call you and say you need to pay a fine.  It appears these scam calls are coming from more than one […]

The cross-trained members of Walhalla Fire Department were sent late yesterday afternoon to a highway 28, Blue Ridge Boulevard, accident in front of Edwards Auto Sales.  The 5:30 pm accident involved a car and a pickup pulling a trailer. Two people were sent to the hospital to be checked out, according to the fire department report.

Before South Carolina doles out money to help Oconee County meet sewer needs, the state wants to know if the plan will encompass an all-together or regional approach.  And yesterday the county sewer commissioners addressed whether there’ll be a requirement on the part of the member cities to take part in what’s called “a regionalization study for wastewater conveyance and […]

A home fire response last night near Seneca required the presence of fire fighters for nearly two and one-half hours.  No injuries have been reported to 101.7/WGOG NEWS as the result of the fire on Goddard Avenue at James Street.  Seneca Fire Department was alerted just before 9 o’clock.