Author: Dick Mangrum

A woman near Westminster was jailed after her arrest on the charge of stealing equipment from the counter of a drug store.  Records released by the police department show the arrest of Laura Lee Taylor, 35, on the charge of grand larceny.  The arrest warrant alleges that on December 3, Taylor took a $5 thousand handheld register product scanner at […]

Crews for the South Carolina DOT are prepared to work around the clock and use available resources to ensure motorists are as safe as possible, in the event the forecast weekend storm materializes.  Those resources include 2,500 SC DOT employees preparing for the event; 60 thousand tons of salt; more than 525 thousand gallons of salt brine, along with about […]

You can’t play the game of politics without knowing where the geographical boundaries lie.  Monday night, Oconee NAACP and the League of Women Voters held a virtual forum on re-districting that featured presentations by David Root and John Ruoff.  Root is the attorney for Oconee County; Dr. Ruoff is considered an expert when it comes to the subject.  Jody Gaulin, […]

The Methodists invite people for free food from their pantry today at Walhalla’s St. Luke Methodist Church.  The food giveaway will run one hour this afternoon, from 4:30 to 5:30.

There’s truth to this morning’s newspaper headline that three Westminster councilmen are quitting.  It appears that the resignations were triggered by something or things said during an executive session, which followed last night’s regular January meeting. In an interview with 101.7/WGOG NEWS, Rusty Cater confirmed he quit and was informed that colleague Danny Duncan had quit and that a third […]

Oconee County and Duke Energy officials will test the warning sirens around the Oconee Nuclear Station.  Five-to-30-second tests are scheduled today between 11 am and 1 pm.  No public action required.

Signs from Seneca indicate city leaders have lost their patience with their counterparts within the Joint Regional Sewer Authority and are ready to follow through with their threat to legally challenge the makeup of the JRSA board, which Seneca believes is under-representative of the argest and highest-paying customer.  A motion to that effect was approved after an executive session that […]

Westminster Councilman Yousef Mefleh says he changed his vote and that last night created the margin in favor of getting rid of a $7 dollar utility meter fee.  A second 4-3 vote this time, besides doing away with the controversial fee, also raises water charges for customers outside the city limits. Earlier in the meeting Attorney Rick McDuff, representing the […]

The Oconee Community Theatre’s Sunday Gray will be the guest speaker at tomorrow’s meeting of the Seneca Rotary Club.