Author: Dick Mangrum

Financial advisers laid out paths that Oconee’s sewer authority may take to correct system wide problems and satisfy the state Department of Health and Environmental Control.  It’s possible, they say, that American Rescue Plan free money or a low-interest loan through the state’s revolving fund can go toward the potential those 10 adopted projects will require $44 million.  And, to […]

You can get food at no cost late this afternoon at Walhalla.  From 4:30 to 5:30 at the St. Luke Methodist Church on E. Main, it’s another Wednesday food giveaway day.

The “Magic of Christmas” is the theme selected for tonight’s parade in Clemson.  The 28th Annual Clemson Christmas Parade from College Avenue to Strode Circle will march at 6 o’clock, with parade activities one hour earlier.  Road closure on College Avenue to Keith Street begins at 3 o’clock.  Access will be blocked between College Avenue and all side streets including […]

Out of consideration that the developer will share in the cost, a planned major student housing complex on Shadwick family property on 123, the Seneca-Clemson corridor, is going to get a higher priority with the Oconee Joint Regional Sewer Authority.  The JRSA policy board accepted an amendment by Westminster’s Kevin Bronson to move the Seneca Creek pumping station and related […]

  One of the advantages that state Senate District One voters have remarked about having their resident senator in office for more than 25 years is seniority.  And that’s what Walhalla’s Thomas Alexander has built over his time at the state capitol.  His colleagues there would agree. They’ve voted the office products businessman as Senate President.  He succeeds Gaffney’s Harvey […]

The Oconee Joint Regional Sewer Authority’s in-house attorney says he does not believe he needs a co-counsel to properly advise the sewer commissioners on Seneca’s threat of a lawsuit centered on board re-alignment, but he is willing to work with a second attorney, the authority’s bond counsel Lawrence Flynn. However, Larry Brandt made clear that, from his reading of the […]

Oconee County has a new probate judge.  It’s Ashley M. Rice.  Rice’s appointment by Chief Justice Donald Beatty brings with it the authority for her to perform all acts, duties, responsibilities, and obligations of the county probate judge’s office.  The appointment, effective this week, expires January 3, 2023. Rice is a seven-year employee of the office, and she told 101.7/WGOG […]

A new public service desk will be installed next week at the Walhalla Main Branch of the Oconee Public Library, and that’ll require the closing of the Walhalla branch for parts of two days.  Blair Hinson, library director, announces the Walhalla library will close at 1 o’clock Tuesday afternoon and remain closed all day the next day, Wednesday.  Funds for […]

  Deaths from drug overdoses in the U-S have set a record every year for the past 20 years.  But now, for the first time, the number of Americans who fatally overdosed over the course of one year surpassed 100 thousand.  Drug overdose figures published today by South Carolina DHEC reflect the year 2019 and show that, during that year, […]

The mayor and those men and woman elected to city council in November are scheduled to take their oaths of office to start four-year terms in Seneca.  The Seneca swearing-in ceremony will be the night of Tuesday, December 14, to be followed by city council’s regular December meeting.  The public is invited.