Author: Dick Mangrum

  Mayor Brian Ramey of Westminster thinks the state’s health authority is acting like too much of a Big Brother when it comes to his city’s sewer collection system.  But the second-term mayor was in the minority this week when the city council voted 6-1 to enter into a consent order with the Department of Health and Environmental Control. Potential […]

Here is a 101.7/WGOG NEWS correction.  The Oconee school  placed under a Code Yellow this week was incorrectly reported as the Fair-Oak Elementary School.  A spokeswoman for the district said the Code Yellow was the Orchard Park Elementary School.  The Code Yellow was enacted while a sheriff’s vehicle pursued a suspect in the Westminster area.

A contractor will mobilize next week in Clemson to re-habilitate Issaqueena Trail.  The work by the Rogers Group could take until the end of July, and motorists using Issaqueena Trail, at times, could face backups lasting 7.5 minutes.  The city recommends avoiding Issaqueena Trail by taking different routes.  But if you can’t, drive safely and cautiously inside the construction zone, […]

After a little more than one-year counting, the Oconee County death toll from COVID-19 stood at 132 people, according to state health agency numbers published at the start of this week.  As to when the virus scourge ends, or practically reduced to nil, a DHEC official says the key indicators are likely to be death and hospitalization numbers.

President Biden’s attempt to put the U-S back into combat against climate change and enlist countries worldwide is not sitting well with the 3rd District representative to the congress. In the U-S, the president seeks to cut coal and petroleum emissions. Rep. Jeff Duncan of Laurens, co-chair of the House Energy Action Team, issued the following statement:  “By reintroducing the […]

What might Seneca look like without a landmark building in the downtown and what might comes in its place are questions to conjure this morning, as the city’s Improvements Corporation prepares for a meeting tomorrow morning.  Atop the agenda is “Harper’s Demolition Work.”  Harper’s was once a thriving 5 and 10-cent store chain in a couple of states, and its […]

On a cold Oconee County night, there were fires on opposite ends of the county.  Just before 2:30 this morning an abandoned house burned to the ground in Salem.  Fire fighters were called to the scene on Wander Road near Sunrise Drive.  Also during the 2 o’clock hour this morning fire burned a Nissan car near Camp School Lane, Fair […]

  The Westminster police say one young man has been arrested, a second young man is being sought, in the continuing investigation of gunfire last week on a street corner.  At Butler and Johnson streets on April 12, a 24-year old man was wounded.  Chief Rory Jones says 19-year old Kenneth Rivadeneira was arrested yesterday and charged with assault and […]