Author: Dick Mangrum

In a rare Wednesday night meeting, the Westminster City Council approved a number of personnel changes.  What’s left of the council accepted the resignations from the council of Brad Chastain and Danny Duncan and informed that Rusty Cater’s resignation is timed for January 31.  Further, in the figuring given by the city attorney, Westminster voters will be asked to go […]

“After evaluation of the roads and the fact that temperatures are not due to be below freezing tonight, SDOC will operate on a normal schedule tomorrow.” That statement this afternoon from the spokeswoman for Oconee public schools.

Personnel at low state Santee Cooper, one of the suppliers for the Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative, are preparing for the anticipated effects that forecast winter weather, including freezing rain, may have on customers in the next two or three days.  About two million South Carolinians depend on the state-owned electric and water utility as their power source, either directly or […]

The motor club AAA warns that gas prices in the Carolinas are being elevated even higher by the rising cost of crude oil, as the U-S price for crude last week increased 6%.  Global supplies are struggling to meet demand.  As AAA sees it, the potential increase in oil demand, coupled with lagging crude production, will only increase prices.

Dean Bare of Tamassee is not in jeopardy of losing his District One seat on the Oconee School Board of Trustees.  Matthew Durham, the District Two county councilman, points out to 101.7/WGOG NEWS that the re-districting plan that received preliminary county council’s approval last night does not move Bare’s addressing to District One.  101.7/WGOG NEWS regrets the error.  It has […]

The motor club AAA

Duke Energy has made good on its tax obligation to an appreciative Oconee County government.  The giant utility satisfied its 2021 property tax bills in advance of the first late penalty that went into effect this week.  Greg Nowell, Oconee treasurer, says the taxes paid by the county’s largest taxpayer, were immediately placed into the county’s bank account.  This time […]

Free COVID-19 tests are scheduled this morning in Clemson at Nettles Park, from 9 to 11 o’clock.  They are for symptomatic and close contact exposures only.  Screening tests for work can no longer be done at the Nettles Park location.

You can lay aside the title of interim chief that applied to Will Bates at the Walhalla Fire Department.  He now is the new chief, as announced last night by his predecessor Brandon Burton, Walhalla’s first-year city administrator