Author: Dick Mangrum

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.

Everyone interested in law and order is invited tomorrow to the Walhalla community meeting, where Chief Brinson and his staff will be in attendance.  Special emphasis will be on internet crime and how you can protect yourself.  Capt. Rice will make a special presentation.  The meeting takes place at 6 tomorrow night in the Walhalla Performing Arts Center (formerly the […]

During a plant tour at Mauldin, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham declared the country won’t get a $2 trillion infrastructure plan touted by the Biden administration.  But South Carolina’s senior U-S senator predicted agreement can be had on an $800 to $900 billion package that’ll be “meat and potatoes” — meaning roads, bridges, and ports.  Graham added if such a deal […]

The 40-volunteer strong Walhalla Main Street organization recommends city government hire a professional planner to guide the future for Main Street.  At the same time the group, headed by event planner Libby Imbody, is urging the mayor and council to extend the six-month moratorium against “box” or discount stores to allow more time for deliberations on what’s allowed and what’s […]

Traffic southbound late yesterday afternoon on I-85 slowed down in Oconee County, in advance of roadwork in progress across the state line in Georgia.  As far back as exit 4, according to Fair Play Fire Department, a tractor-trailer truck hit one vehicle and pushed it into two others.  Chief Larry Wilkerson says a mother and a child were transported by […]

The state police are out with guidance to the public regarding the Open Carry with Training Act, signed into law today by Governor McMaster.  “It’s critical for South Carolina gun owners to understand the new law before carrying their weapon in public,” said SLED Chief Mark Keel.  The law has a 90-day implementation delay. Therefore, the law does not go […]

An Oconeean recently answered her telephone recently to a call that displayed the non-emergency line of the county sheriff’s office.  The sheriff’s office says this was a scam by someone pretending to be a deputy sheriff.  The caller warned the person called that she needed to pay money due to a warrant that had been issued for people who fail […]

Even before the Colonial Pipeline shutdown of last week, gas prices were expected to flirt with $3 dollars a gallon leading up to Memorial Day weekend.  The motor club AAA Carolinas predicts nearly nearly one-half million South Carolinians are expected to travel by car over the holiday weekend.  “Many Carolinians are so eager to travel, we don’t expect higher gas […]