Author: Dick Mangrum

Some within WGOG land are liable to have lost sleep early this morning when a storm walloped an area between Seneca and Clemson.  Around 2 o’clock this morning thunder, light bolts, heavy downpour.  The traffic signals at 123 and Wells Highway apparently paid a price.  They were on blink this morning.

By 10:15 last night, Westminster crews had restored electric power service for most customers impacted by the outage early in the afternoon.  Marty Reid of the utilities department said by late last night, only isolated outages remained.  Repair crews were activated just after 1 o’clock in the afternoon when construction workers hit a utility pole near Simpson Street.  That left […]

Coroner Addis of Oconee has updated the report of his investigation as to what happened yesterday on Lake Keowee: “A 38-year-old Greenville man died Monday afternoon (July 4th) in the emergency department at Oconee Memorial Hospital from drowning. Michael Criswell, 38, was with friends at Stamp Creek Landing on Lake Keowee Monday afternoon.  They were wading in the lake when […]

Due to the increasing costs and proven ineffectiveness of curbside recycling, the City of Clemson will suspend curbside collection of recycling effective Monday, August 1st, 2022. Why is Curbside Recycling Being Suspended? The National Waste & Recycling Association estimates that at least 25% of recyclable material in single-stream recycling (which includes curbside recycling) ends up in landfills due to contamination. […]

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is reclassifying the smooth coneflower from endangered to threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The Service is also finalizing a 4(d) rule that tailors protections and allows greater flexibility for management actions that will benefit the plant. The proposal represents a significant recovery milestone for the plant following years of ESA-inspired partnerships across […]