Author: Dick Mangrum

New cases:  1,514 (including 39 Oconee County cases) New deaths:  103 (including two in Oconee County) Of 20,788 test results, the new positivity:  10.4% (These numbers reflect the count at the end of the day Tuesday)

U-S Rep. Jeff Duncan, South Carolina 3rd District, has joined 44 colleagues in a letter to the Biden administration, voicing concerns about vaccine mandates applying to workers at Medicare and Medicaid-certified facilities.  The letter went to President Biden, the secretary for Health and Human Services and the administrator for Medicare and Medicaid.  Duncan said, “Several states are already nearing or […]

A Walhallan who is attempting to complete his north-south hike of the Appalachian Trail reached the start of the Smokies today at the Tennessee-North Carolina line.  That means Wayne Garland is 241 miles from the finish line.

A home burglary last week in Westminster led to the arrest yesterday of a 32-year old man.  Law enforcement records show Justin Reid Cobb arrested and charged with burglary first degree at a home September 22 on Simpson Street.

  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 […]