Author: Dick Mangrum

Starting tomorrow, the Oconee Humane Society on the Sandifer Boulevard will discontinue its parking lot business location and welcome the public back inside, as the building will now accommodate visitors Monday through Friday from 10 to 5 and Saturday 10 to 2.  To mark this coming out of COVID event, there will be a party with snacks, sweet tea and […]

Around 10 o’clock this morning, 101.7/WGOG will leave the air to allow for a maintenance issue with our transmitter.  The station will be silent for about 30 minutes, but will return after that short period sounding as well or better than ever, according to our engineer.

The statewide committee that keeps a watch on the skies for rain clouds placed six counties yesterday on a list of incipient drought counties.  The six are all lower state:  Clarendon, Florence, Georgetown, Horry, Marion, and Williamsburg.  Incipient is the first level of drought, followed by moderate, severe, and extreme.  Upstate South Carolina is a different story as recent rains […]

Agents from the U-S Drug Enforcement Agency joined Oconee investigators as two pounds of methamphetamine were seized Monday at a home in southern Oconee County.  From that seizure, according to the sheriff’s office, Sarah Francine Deill was arrested and charged with trafficking in meth and possession with intent to distribute LSD.  One of two Deill’s addresses is the arrest scene, […]

New confirmed cases of COVID-19 in South Carolina:  162.  Twelve of them were in Oconee County.  Seven new deaths were added to the virus death toll in the state.  Of 6,158 test results received, positivity was 3.4%.  These numbers reflect the data effective at the 24-hour count that ended at 11:59 Sunday night.

Oconee school trustees recognized Margaret Brown for her longstanding support of arts education.  Brown is the widow of James Brown, a former county superintendent, and her family has long supported the arts in the county district.  The James M. Brown Scholarship for the Arts was established in 1995.  Since then, 28 high school seniors received the scholarship.  In recent years, […]

A member of the public exercised his right to attend last night’s Seneca City Council meeting, but the police said his behavior was inappropriate both inside the council chambers and on the outside.  As a result, Stoney Lee Medlin of highway 182, Fair Play was removed from the meeting room and cited by the police for public disorderly conduct and […]

A Westminster school will share in the funding for 111 non-public South Carolina schools, receiving monies from a program created by the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act.  The announcement by State Superintendent of Education Molly Spearman includes $341,655.28 for the Foothills Christian School on Westminster’s Robin Road.  In all, the 111 non-public South Carolina schools receive a total […]

Many of us look forward to summer time, but not a pervasive insect whose bites leave itchy red welts on our bodies. To kill off as many mosquitos as possible, city of Walhalla trucks and machinery will engage in spraying.  The spraying schedule will start Friday and continue until October. If you have any questions, please call 864-638-4351. —

A boat sank into Lake Keowee on Monday, off SC 188/the Keowee School Road.  Seneca fire fighters were among those who responded.  Floating booms were placed in the water to absorb any leak of fuel or oils.