Author: Dick Mangrum

New South Carolina cases:  2,409, including 59 Oconee County cases.  And deaths in the state are climbing–110 of them on today’s report, including three Oconeeans.  Of 26,481 test results received, the positivity was 12.6%.  (These numbers reflect the count at the end of the day Monday).  

Today, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) is updating its online reporting of COVID-19 Associated with Students & Staff to help parents, caregivers and school officials have additional data about COVID-19’s impact on schools. DHEC has been working with the S.C. Department of Education to implement a new weekly reporting tool for schools and districts that […]

Members of the West Union Town Council will meet in their conference room at 10 o’clock tomorrow morning to watch a Zoom meeting about a program called Low Income Household Water Assistance.

In a case that sent Seneca officials back to the drawing board, a circuit judge ruled last week that two Northampton Road property owners had a vested right to rent their house on a short-term basis.  An order filed by 10th Circuit Judge Cordell Maddox grants a summary judgement to Leonard Chace, Julie Chace, and the Leonard and Julie Chace […]

On former property of the U-S Army Corps of Engineers in Hart County, Georgia there is a new Kampground of America, owned by Barry Stern who founded a KOA in 2017 in Fort Pierce, Florida.  The new Hartwell KOA is located at the former Hart State Park. Campers there may access the campground beach, the boat ramp, and courtesy docks […]

Seneca’s Blue Ridge Community Center will host free cancer screenings on Wednesday, October 6.  The screenings are designed to detect breast and cervical cancer.  Through the Best Chance Network, women qualify for free screenings provided they are South Carolina residents, age 21-64; meet certain income guidelines (at or below 250% of the federal poverty level); and have a high-deductible health […]

Here are the newest COVID-19 South Carolina COVID-19 cases, as reported by DHEC.  The count effective at the end of the day Sunday revealed 3,552 new cases of the virus statewide — 60 in Oconee County.  Statewide, 35 South Carolinians were added to the death toll.  Among them: two Pickens County residents and four Anderson County residents.  Of 31,054 test […]

A fisherman from Pickens apparently drowned late yesterday afternoon in Lake Jocassee near the Devil’s Fork State Park.  Coroner Karl Addis said the victim was an 85-year old Pickens man, Wallace Edward Curtis, who appeared to have been preparing to load his boat onto a trailer after an outing on the lake.  Curtis had left his Pickens home early yesterday […]

That unwanted visitor into the drinking water made by the Pioneer Rural Water District has been much less prevalent of late and, as a result, Pioneer officials say they’re not getting the phone calls so common earlier this year, and social media no longer is full of complaints.  Gary Harper, superintendent of Pioneer’s treatment plant, attributes the decrease in algae […]