Author: Dick Mangrum

Oconee County School District is spreading awareness of the following announcement today from the federal government: “The Emergency Broadband Benefit is a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) program to help families and households struggling to afford internet service during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Emergency Broadband Benefit will provide a discount of up to $50 per month towards broadband service for eligible […]

Two principals at two Oconee County elementary schools are retiring at year’s end next month, and the district must find their replacements.  Sherrie McAlister will retire from Westminster Elementary School.  The man considered the dean of Oconee principals, Geoff Smith, leaves Seneca’s Northside Elementary School after 22 years.

  With a new treatment plant at Lake Keowee, Walhalla believes it can count on a new source of water well into the future.  But not all are happy.  Residents of a home development on the lake look out and see a large concrete structure, and they are hopeful the city will invest in plantings to hide their view.  Mayor […]

William Butler Addis died last month at the age of 60.  He is not forgotten by the Walhalla City Council.  Addis served as a city councilman for about 14 years.  He was also known as a volunteer in the city’s fire and recreation services.  Emotions spilled out when the city council passed a resolution in Addis’ honor and presented to […]

As COVID-19 numbers continue their slide, you no longer are required to cover your face in Oconee County government offices and buildings and in other county facilities.  An ordinance that required face coverings was repealed last night, with an amendment by John Elliott, the council chairman, to lift the mandate effective today.

The only municipal-owned swimming pool in Oconee County will welcome swimmers on Saturday and maintain weekend hours until Memorial Day, when it will switch to its traditional daily schedule of swimming, swim lessons, and other aquatic events.  The Walhalla Pool on W. Main Street is operated for the city by the Foothills YMCA.  Last night the city council presented a […]

A late night shooting in Pendleton left a 71-year old man dead from a gunshot wound to the chest.  The Anderson County coroner, Greg Shore, says just before 11 o’clock, the body of Hack Sulliven Sr. was found on the porch of his home at 364 Thompson Street.  According to the coroner, Sulliven had been in an altercation with a […]

On today’s report from DHEC:  112 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in South Carolina, including four from Oconee County. The death toll increased by two people, with the deaths of individuals in Lee and Edgefield counties.  Of 5,602 test results, the South Carolina positivity was 3.7%.  These numbers reflect data effective for the 24-hour count that ended at 11:59 Sunday […]

Students of Seneca High enrolled in their school’s chorale programs have once again been rated superior.  In every appearance in the state choral performance assessment, formerly known as state festival, Seneca’s Honors Women’s Chorus, the Honors Chorale, and the Madrigals have earned superior ratings from the judges.