Author: Dick Mangrum

School buildings are off-limits to students in summer.  But in Oconee, the public schools have an interest in ensuring that children receive proper nutrition.  The district announces that “Summer Meals for Oconee Kids” will start Wednesday, June 1 and continue through Friday,  July 29 at five locations.  Regardless of whether children are students or not, the meals will be served […]

A couple of possibilities for the use of some vacated space in Westminster — now that the magistrate is ensconced in a brand new edifice on the east side of the city.  According to Kevin Bronson, a couple of ideas are being floated about the quarters that Magistrate Derrick vacated on Windsor Street.  One is a new chamber for city […]

A student was shot yesterday morning in an off-campus incident in northeast Georgia. Toccoa Radio WNEG elicited this account as to what happened” “At approximately 10:16 am, Habersham County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to a possible shooting in the area of the 2200 block of SR 197 in Mount Airy. A 9-1-1 caller from a business across from the Ninth […]

Westminster City Council gave its approval last night to applying to the federal government for as much as $7.5 million in the form of a loan/grant to pay for various improvements across the city’s water service territory.  The improvements are to stretch as far as Long Creek to upsize to 250,000 gallons the Unity Tank.  A notice posted at city […]

An appeal to Seneca’s zoning law will be heard at 6 tonight at city hall.  The applicant and property owners are James and Barbara Williams at 819 S. Stribling Street.  The public is invited.

The outside attorney representing Westminster has joined the firm representing the potential plaintiff and yesterday, in special meeting, Westminster City Council hired a replacement.  This, as Westminster and other possible defendants, prepare for tomorrow’s mediation proceeding.  At issue during tomorrow’s proceeding is Seneca’s threat to sue Westminster and other parties over their refusal to grant Seneca more voting clout on […]

A student is reported to be the victim of an off-campus shooting today in northeast Georgia.  WNEG Toccoa quotes reports as saying the student was shot near the campus of a 9th grade academy and, as the result, Habersham Central High School and the 9th Grade Academy were placed in a temporary lockdown.  A suspect is in custody, ad the […]

The following statement this morning from Oconee public schools: “Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of the victims and the entire community of Uvalde, Texas.  To offer extra assurance to our elementary school students and families for the final few days of school, we have increased officers available to our schools.  If a school is holding an off-campus […]