Author: Dick Mangrum

  A retired educator living in the Little River Community near Salem read the Associated Press story in yesterday’s Journal and thought the writing was about her. In a way, it was.  Phyllis Mays, retired Code Elementary School librarian, this week recalls a fascinating three-month time in her life 50 years ago after she graduated college. Mays was one of […]

The 20th year of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Clemson University will be celebrated by a Full Moon Book festival this month at Patrick Square Town Center.  Under tents on the lawn, the festival will allow community readers to swap books and obtain new titles.  The event will be 1 to 6 pm Wednesday, October 20.  Another highlight is […]

Fire during the 3 o’clock hour this morning burned a trailer and a car inside a Walhalla mobile home park at the city’s western edge.  The fire department reports Oconee Sheriff’s Office is investigating the fire inside a mobile home park on WS Broad Street near the Highlands Highway.  No injuries reported.

A third meeting takes place tonight of Clemson United for Racial Equality.  It’s a community engagement dialogue that tackles topics such as affordable housing, policing, and education.  Tonight’s meeting will run 6:30 to 8 at the Littlejohn Community Center, 644 Old Greenville Highway.  Seating is limited; social distancing encouraged.

The committee that organizes Walhalla Oktoberfest reports a first.  Barbara Justus, Oktoberfest President, says this year’s organizers are pleased by the commitment by a North Carolina restaurant that specializes in European and Bavarian cuisine to bring its food truck to Oktoberfest at Sertoma Field October 15-17.  The restaurant is Haus of Heidelberg at Hendersonville, which was sampled recently by a […]

Fire fighters are said to have finished their work this morning at the western edge of Walhalla city limits.  County Rural Fire reported a fire call at 3:40 this morning to Marv’s Drive near W. Main Street and the Highlands Highway.  No one reported hurt; however, not clear as to the nature of the fire and what exactly burned.

To help ensure voters are prepared for Municipal Election Day (November 2nd), the State Election Commission wants to remind everyone of the upcoming voter registration deadlines and urge those already registered to update their information. With over 200 local elections being held in South Carolina on Municipal Election Day, now is the time to make sure you are registered to […]

Margaret Harper of Oconee County is a former Red Cross volunteer who laments that the county is no longer home to a Red Cross office.  She recently told the county council that if the longtime local Red Cross director, Kathy Rogers, were still alive local suffering such as that which came with last year’s EF3 tornado and the continuing world […]