Author: Dick Mangrum

Oconee Sheriff’s Office has learned that someone is attempting a fundraising scam by posing as a fund raiser for the hospitalized deputy Lucas Watts.  The caller phoned an individual and asked if he wanted to donate to support Watts, seriously wounded in a November on-duty incident.  The unsuspecting recipient of the call agreed and was transferred to another person who […]

Fair Play fire fighters contained a home fire this morning to one room. And Chief Wilkerson says there’s no need for the residents on Willie Road near the W. Fair Play Boulevard to find other lodging.  They were not displaced.

Phones are ringing today at the National Weather Service at Greer, and the staff there is busy with its outlook for rainstorms and strong winds this evening.  And the forecasters have included in their extended outlook a very frigid low temperature of 16 degrees on Tuesday night next week.  You can hear NWS forecaster Ashley Rehnberg speak to this, in […]

The Army Corps of Engineers is waiving day use fees at its more than 2,850 recreation areas nationwide, to include Lake Hartwell and J. Strom Thurmond for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday.  The waiver covers fees for boat launch ramps and day use areas.  Not covered are camping and camping related services.  If you are going. it’s […]

All recycling centers, the landfill, the transfer station, and the main complex are OPEN regular business hours on Monday, January 15.

Oconee County government offices will be closed Monday to observe the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.  For the sheriff’s office, normal and routine law enforcement operations will continue.  The library doors will be shut, but book returns and the virtual branch options are available.  Here is the holiday garbage pickup schedule in Walhalla.  Monday’s routes will be run on Tuesday […]

Senator Tim Scott is losing patience over inaction to stop people from dying from fentanyl.  The junior South Carolina senator pushed yesterday to pass a bill of sanctions and anti-money laundering targeting the China-Mexico illicit supply chain of the drug.  Scott spoke from his seat on the Senate Banking Committee and raised awareness of the destruction caused by fentanyl arriving […]