Author: Dick Mangrum

An early morning accident involving a deer and a pickup truck near Walhalla on SC 183/the Walhalla-Westminster Highway.  The damaged pickup has been left temporarily in the parking lot of WGOG.

Police and ambulances responded to a Westminster neighborhood last night after reports of an out of control vehicle crashing into a home on Bermuda Street.  According to what 101.7/WGOG NEWS learned, the police were looking for the driver.  Yesterday afternoon in Walhalla there was a large police response to reports of an incident at or near a highway 28/Blue Ridge […]

The Oconee Sheriff wants the state police to investigate a fight early today between two Oconee County inmates.  No jail guards were hurt, but Capt. Chapman’s preliminary investigation indicates that it was an altercation between two inmates inside a jail cell, and one of them was hurt enough to be sent by EMS to the hospital.  Having the South Carolina […]

If you are fully vaccinated against catching COVID-19, you are now encouraged by the state health director to enjoy the outdoors, especially breathing in fresh air that some have missed while staying-in during the pandemic.  But that doesn’t apply to those who have not been vaccinated.  They, according to Dr. Traxler, are at risk of catching the virus that, so […]

Crimestoppers of Oconee has taken out roadside billboards to highlight six cases of missing people that remain under investigation, as far back as the late 1980s.  The cases are displayed on a rotational basis on electric billboards on highway 123 near Jacobs Road and on 123 near High-Tec Road.  The cases highlight the unexplained disappearances of the following men and […]

The death last week of an Oconee County resident is being termed by the state health agency as a probable COVID-19 death.  The death May 20 was that of a young adult, between the ages of 18 and 34.  On DHEC’s report this afternoon:  133 new cases of the virus across the state, but no additional cases in Oconee County.  […]

An unloading mishap yesterday morning at the Oconee County Landfill near Seneca.  A customer got a little too close to the hole into which he had just unloaded debris from  his pickup truck and fell a distance of about 10 feet.  He required some bandages.  Swain Stihl, solid waste manager, stresses the importance of customers paying close attention to the […]

The group Clemson United for Racial Equity invites the public for a discussion of affordable housing, policing, and healthcare.  All three are topics for discussion in the first in a series of get togethers, with this one to take place 6:30 to 8 o’clock tomorrow night at 362 Chapman Hill Road, Central.  Limited seating available – social distancing encouraged.  If […]

Taking a page from the federal government, South Carolina is easing the tax burden on South Carolinians who are drawing unemployment benefits during the pandemic.  The state Department of Revenue announces that Governor McMaster last week signed a bill to allow recipients of unemployment compensation to exclude state taxes up to $10,200 of benefits received in 2020.  The Congress earlier […]

A 41-year old man near Westminster has been given a 15-year prison sentence for trafficking methamphetamine second offense, burglary third degree, and grand larceny.  The sentence handed down by the judge yesterday makes Derek Wayne Gibson ineligible for parole.  Solicitor David Wagner said, “My office will continue to focus on repeat offenders in our community and strive to ensure that […]