Author: Dick Mangrum

A replacement airport terminal is part of a five-year “wish list” of proposed capital improvement projects reviewed yesterday by the Oconee Aeronautics Commission, in a regular meeting held in county council chambers.  Joseph Barkevich of the Oconee Regional Airport’s long-time outside consultant company W-K Dickson suggested a new terminal to be built adjacent to the existing facility.  Other potential future […]

For their work to arrest a homicide suspect (Dustin Wayne Turpin), two Oconee sheriff’s officers received certificates of commendation and a cup of valor award.  Recipients during a promotions ceremony this month were Sgt.  Jamie Hellams and Corp. Chris Johnson.

Gov. McMaster and the South Carolina Department of Mental Health and Human Services report progress in school-based mental health counselors for students.  A September 2023 survey showed the number doubled statewide to 1,209 at the start of the school year, from 600 in January 2022.  Across the Oconee district, officials say, there are seven counselors — one for every 1,400 […]

Clemson University animal health officials are urging owners of backyard poultry flocks and pet waterfowl to keep their birds away from wild waterfowl and the waters they inhabit. The warning comes after backyard flocks in Horry and Orangeburg counties contracted the Eurasian strain of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), presumably from wild birds and waterways frequented by wild birds. In both […]

A couple of themes that Governor McMaster hit on last night actually echo from the previous week’s annual public meeting of Oconee’s state legislative delegation.  Among the concerns that the trio of the county’s state lawmakers heard January 18: confidence in the way judges are chosen and the plight of the state’s seemingly worsening roads and bridges.  McMaster wants a […]

It’s time for the state DNR to survey for the colorful songbird the Baltimore Oriole, to check the status of Baltimore orioles who winter in South Carolina.  If you have Baltimore orioles coming to your feeders or have had them in the past years, SCDNR encourages your participation in the survey.  You can access the survey form and materials from […]

EMS personnel seen this morning in the vicinity of Walhalla’s E. Main Street and the Hardee’s Restaurant.  101.7/WGOG NEWS has received info to indicate the reason is a car accident with injuries.

Senator Lindsey Graham’s long-time director of communications, Kevin Bishop, is retiring and is to be replaced by deputy communications director Taylor Reidy.  Bishop’s association with Graham dates back to the late 1990s when he worked as Graham’s South Carolina representative when the senator was a member of the House of Representatives.  The senator regrets Bishop’s departure saying, “Kevin’s understanding of […]

It has happened to Georgia and an Oconee County official believes there have been a couple of cases in South Carolina.  In instances of when a home is paid off, a scammer can take advantage when there’s no mortgage company.  They find ways to get the deeds.  Oconee County offers a program to protect homeowners.  The following statement was provided […]

Here is a clarification for 101.7/WGOG NEWS on what the Oconee County auditor, Christy Hubbard, envisions on the impact to retire the eventual debt  the $25 million bond issue – much of it likely to be generated for Sewer South II: Hubbard made the following statement Wednesday: “When I was talking last night (Tuesday) about millage for debt service I […]