Author: Dick Mangrum

A compilation of the local stories with the greatest importance in the 101.7/WGOG listening area will be aired four times during New Year’s weekend.  The 2023 Year-in-Review can be heard two times on Saturday, following the 7 am and 12 noon ABC News.  Two airings take place on New Year’s Day, Monday, January 1 at 12 noon and 5 pm.  […]

A rural Tennessee man has been arrested in Oconee County, charged in a pre-Christmas crime at the former Mountain Rest Café, the Highlands Highway.  Law enforcement records show the arrest of Rodney Gerald Briggs, a 53-year old resident of Flag Pond, Tennessee near Johnson City, on the charge of trespassing and malicious injury to real property.  Deputies decided to pursue […]

A civil lawsuit alleges liability in a vehicle- bridge accident a little more than one year ago in Pickens County.  Filed last week in that county’s common pleas court, the suit seeks a jury trial to decide claims of negligence and wrongful death against the city of Norris, Pickens County, and the state Department of Transportation.  Plaintiff in the case […]

A power outage resulted in the area of Walhalla’s WS Boundary Street yesterday morning when a tree dropped onto a Duke Energy power line.  The fire department removed the fallen tree from the roadway.

A one-time paint store in Walhalla sustained a partial collapse during the rain.  Walhalla Fire Department was alerted to what happened at 600 W. Main Street around 8 yesterday morning and has since cordoned off the area.

The office of Anderson coroner announces the completion of its investigation of a child’s death September 2.  According to Coroner Greg Shore, seven-year-old Adlyn Briella Thrasher sustained cardiac arrest and died the result of methadone toxicity.  Around 6 o’clock the morning of August 30, she was found unresponsive in her bed and not breathing.  The family started CPR and called […]

A 24-year-old Anderson man died in surgery after shots were fired during the early morning hours of Christmas Eve.  First responders found Markel Holland with wounds around 1 o’clock in the morning at Simon’s Bar and Grill at 3907 Clemson Boulevard, Anderson.  He was rushed to AnMed.  Coroner Greg Shore said the night club incident appears to have resulted from […]

The final days of a calendar year can take on a busy air when it comes to real estate deals.  Such a deal rests with Walhalla’s elected leaders during a private meeting today to consider a real estate matter involving the city’s project for a community center.

If tradition holds, the counter staff at the Oconee Treasurer’s Office face a busy week, cut short by the Christmas holidays.  Many county taxpayers wait until the final calendar days of the year to pay their property taxes to qualify for a deduction on income tax returns.  Others satisfy their obligation to county government by paying online.  Still others, such […]