Author: Dick Mangrum

The police in Walhalla request motorists and the general public to use caution at N. Church and W. Main streets, where utility workers are attempting to restore electric power.  Earlier, during the storm, the Main Street traffic lights went dark, but they since been restored to service.

New confirmed cases of COVID-19:  856.  Eight are Oconee residents.  Six deaths were documented statewide.  Of 18,794 test results, the positivity was 6.3%.

In South Carolina, if you turn on your windshield wipers, you are to be sure that your vehicle’s headlights are also on.  That’s the law, according to the state patrol and the motor club AAA Carolinas.  Yet, as late as this week, members of one Oconee County body debated whether, in fact, there is such a law requiring the display […]

Senator Tim Scott is making a commitment this morning for the country to meet the health care needs of older Americans during COVID-19.  The setting for the South Carolina Republican is a Washington hearing conducted by the Senate Special Committee on Aging, on which Scott serves as ranking member.  The committee today is to focus on health care needs for […]

Prisma Health says a successful surgical procedure, the first of its kind in the state, has implanted a diaphragm pacer into a patient who experienced a life-changing spinal cord injury.  The injury occurred in an automobile accident, but Prisma Health says the patient has been discharged and is recovering at home.  He was identified as Tevin Johnson, a Sumter native […]

Oconee County received a feeler from a company representative inquiring as to whether the county had adopted something called the “Bailey bill.”  County Council members learned from Annie Caggiano what this bill can do during a committee meeting, Caggiano, president of the Oconee Economic Alliance, remarked that it was a developer making the inquiry.  On Tuesday, Caggiano told the county’s […]

A make-up meeting to allow Oconee County Republicans to re-organize will take place at the end of next week, and all registered precinct residents are welcome to participate in the process.  The meeting will be 10 o’clock Saturday morning, March 27 at Seneca’s Gignilliat Community Center, 621 N. Townville Street.  Party Chairman Bill Jerome last night issued the following statement […]

Property owner Rebecca Burdette will ask the Seneca Board of Zoning Appeals tonight to grant her a variance at 619 S. Walnut Street.  The public hearing is set for 6 at City Hall.  The members of the board of zoning appeals in Walhalla are being asked to report for a meeting at 5:30 pm Monday, April 5 at the Depot.  […]

Because of the threat of inclement weather, there will be no COVID-19 tests performed today at Clemson’s Nettles Park.

Fire fighters were three hours last night at a fire in the Port Bass Community, believed to have been a mobile home on N. Davis Drive.  According to Rural Fire Control, no one hurt but the American Red Cross is assisting the family impacted by the damage.