Author: Dick Mangrum

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 […]

  Here this afternoon’s statement:  “Federal District Judge Mary Geiger Lewis issued a temporary restraining order Tuesday on the state’s one-year budget provision aimed at preventing school districts from mandating masks for students and staff.  In the order, Judge Lewis ruled that SC Budget Proviso 1.108 discriminates against students with disabilities and violates the Americans with Disabilities Act and additional […]

New cases:  1,144 (22 in Oconee) New, confirmed deaths in the state:  85 (one in Oconee) Of 14,824 test results received, positivity:  18.8%. (These data are effective end of the day Monday)

The state superintendent of education says a federal court ruling yesterday has the effect of giving school districts “discretionary authority” to require masks.  Superintendent Spearman sent a memorandum today to district superintendents which, in part, read:  “In its order, the Court used strong language to share grave concerns about barriers to meaningful access to in-person education, programs, services, and activities […]