Author: Dick Mangrum

  The mayor and five of the city’s six councilmen agree priority one for the city is raising revenues.  And they are not talking about property taxes or utility charges.  At their annual strategy meeting, there was agreement to consider other methods to grow the city’s finances.  Mayor Brian Ramey says they include incentivizing home development, expanding garbage pickup routes, […]

South Carolina’s U-S senators, and the rest of their colleagues, are now sworn to be judges next month on whether Donald Trump in the waning days of his term bears responsibility for the insurrection at the Capitol.  South Carolina’s Tim Scott, in a pre-trial statement yesterday, said he’s unconvinced the Senate has the authority to try what now is a […]

An architect on behalf of a two-member team from the state municipal association helped rev up a crowd of interested Walhallans into imagining the future for the city’s downtown business district.  Randy Wilson has been in Walhalla only three days, but he’s sold on many of the assets that lie within the core commercial district.  He and his colleague Jenny […]

An accident late this afternoon left Walhalla’s N. Katherine Street at Tulip Drive reduced to one lane of travel both directions.  Police and fire personnel responded, but no injuries were reported.  The accident occurred around 3:50 pm.

No injuries are reported this afternoon in an accident involving a FedEx truck north of Walhalla.  The accident scene was the Austin Edwards Road where, according to a public safety responder, the small box-type truck left the roadway and hit trees.  The state patrol logged the accident around the 1 o’clock hour.

For a new 24-hour period, smaller numbers of COVID cases and deaths are reported by the South Carolina state health agency.  Just yesterday the state’s acting health director said the state, of late, has seen a plateau of the numbers. In today’s DHEC report:  new cases fell to 1,993 (28 of them are from Oconee County).  Statewide there were 24 […]

An Oconee County deputy has decided that a phone call made to a county resident by someone purporting to represent Social Social was likely to have been spoofed to make it appear that the call arrived from a local number when, in fact, they were dialing from overseas.  The call was an automated message and a reminder to the public […]

Nine students and ten employees have been added to the COVID-19 tracking page kept by the Oconee School District.  Five of the cases are at Seneca High School.  Five classes, containing some of the district’s youngest pupils, have been sent home and given February 2 return dates.  Two of the classes are at Walhalla’s James Brown Elementary.

Prisma Health of South Carolina, along with the public health department serving northeast Georgia, and the state of New Jersey, among others, share a common distinction.  Their providers of COVID-19 vaccines have exhausted their supplies or are running dangerously low.  Georgia’s District Two Public has stopped making appointments for the time being.  Toccoa Radio WNEG quotes the department spokesman as […]

A new announcement this morning from the Rosa Clark Medical Clinic at Seneca.  Rosa Clark was unable today to register as a third party provider.  What that means, according to Rosa Clark’s Vicki Thompson, is that the clinic will NOT have to create emails for anyone or send them links to the site.  “Staff will be able to register them […]