Author: Dick Mangrum

The country’s employers in January added about 150,000 more jobs than experts had projected.  December is the last month for which South Carolina has published its jobless figures.  The statewide average unemployment was 3.5%; Oconee County’s was 2.7%.

Walhalla was approximating a 4″ rainfall this morning, as the storm makes its way northward.  One measurement taken at Salem was 4.3″ of inches of rain.  Overnight, Oconee County Dispatch, reported no major problems with the rain which, during the night, fell hard at a number of locations.

Officers of the court are telling 101.7/WGOG NEWS that a pair of juvenile referrals remains pending in the Oconee County Family Court.  Those referrals were made last year after a bush hogger was found dead on a tractor that ran off a pasture into the woods near Westminster.  According to an announcement by the Oconee Sheriff’s Office on July 2, […]

Local and area jurists are getting new terms on the bench.  The South Carolina Court Administration is extending congratulations to Karen Ballenger of Seneca for her re-election as the Seat 2 judge in the Family Court and to Perry Gravely of Pickens for his re-election to Seat 1 in the 13th Judicial Circuit.  Judges were elected Wednesday by the state […]

Senator Tim Scott, South Carolina Republican, questioned Federal Reserve nominee Sarah Bloom Raskin about what he says is her history of advocating for policies that make it harder for low-income Americans to get small dollar loans.  Scott’s office this week released a video of the senator’s remarks to Raskin, and her response to what he had to say.  Excerpts of […]

The Department of Natural Resources released an additional 16 tagged coyotes statewide recently as part of a Coyote Harvest Incentive Program.  Any hunter who successfully takes and reports one of the tagged coyotes will be rewarded with a free lifetime license.  Each year DNR traps, tags and releases four coyotes in each of the state’s game zones.  The person reporting […]

A dean at the Tri-County Technical College, Jackie Blakley, will return to a seat on the board of directors of the Girl Scouts of South Carolina — Mountain to Midlands.  The board is welcoming three others as new members, as well as Camden resident Frances Griggs’ selection as board chairperson.

In their meeting on Monday afternoon next week, the policymakers for the Oconee Joint Regional Sewer Authority are to consider changing their by-laws to allow a city administrator or a utilities director who is employed full-time by a city to serve as a commissioner if he or she lives outside Oconee County.  The by-laws as they are now written cost […]

The percentage of COVID-19 test data on Tuesday in South Carolina fell to 24.4%, from nearly 34% the previous day.  However, the number of South Carolinians confirmed to have died from the virus during the 24-hour count for Tuesday was placed by DHEC at 107, with another 30 probable deaths.  Several of the 107 number were residents of Oconee, Anderson, […]