Author: Dick Mangrum

Few will likely mourn the passing of 2020.  We’ve all been impacted by the scourge of COVID-19.  Imagine, if you will, what it’s like to enter a home where there is discord and there may be an active case of the virus.  It’s the duty of social service workers to help bring about peace in a setting where there’s a […]

  The elected leaders of Walhalla have been introduced to the idea of a community garden, as a way to grow food naturally and share it with those in need.  It’s the idea of school teacher Sarah Carpenter.  She told the mayor and city council that she has found a spot on W. Main Street across from the swimming pool […]

Walhalla’s leaders believe their best bang for the dollar will be to allow New Year’s Eve to pass without a city-sponsored fireworks show. The city council squelched any plans to expend monies this year for a professionally-staged fireworks display which, if held, would likely have required or encouraged spectators to watch it from their cars due to the pandemic.  Libby […]

A meeting December 1 will likely hammer out the final details for the annual Walhalla Christmas parade.  That meeting takes place only five days before the actual event, which is scheduled 5:30 Saturday evening, December 5.  The worsening rate for the spread of COVID-19 was a prime consideration for how the city will attempt to regulate the parade in a […]

Masked individuals are re-counting votes in 159 Georgia counties.  In at least one county, a county that borders Oconee County, South Carolina, the re-count has been completed, and the registrar there says no fraud discovered.  Stephens County’s Eureka Gober says her staff finished the audit and re-count yesterday afternoon.  Toccoa Radio WNEG quotes Gober as saying both processes went smoothly […]

Walhalla crews have repaired the 10″ line break near Halfway Branch.  Because samples are now to be taken and then analyzed, the boil water advisory continues for Walhalla customers on the Blue Ridge Boulevard, Avondale, Tanglewood, Albert’s Road, and Park Ridge subdivision.  Scott Parris, utilities superintendent, expects to know and announce the results of the samples by late tomorrow afternoon.

A major network (NBC) reports that data show COVID-19 is now on the rise in all 50 states.  South Carolina is no exception where the state health agency today added 1,088 new cases and 11 more deaths, including that of an Oconeean.  The Oconeean, an elderly person, died Sunday and appears as a confirmed death on today’s report.  Among the […]

A 10″ water line has failed today and the result is a boil water advisory to Walhalla customers in the vicinity of Halfway Branch. Repair crews are making their way to the spot where the line apparently split, in front of Head Lee Nursery on SC 28.  Customers in the following areas can expect to lose pressure momentarily:  Blue Ridge […]

Until a part arrives, the brush grinder used by the city of Clemson is out of service.  But Clemson residents may still get rid of brush by dropping it off at the facility.