Author: Dick Mangrum

South Carolina DHEC announced 909 new confirmed COVID cases today, along with 18 additional deaths.  Thirty-five of those 909 were Oconee County residents.  There were, however, no additional Oconee deaths.  Individual test results reported to DHEC Monday was 5,226 and the positive rate was 17.4%.

Today, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) shared updated data that shows communities with mask requirement ordinances in place continue to see a slower rate of disease spread compared to communities without mask requirements. “The data continues to reinforce what we’ve already known about proper wearing of masks and their success in helping to stop the […]

  School District of Oconee home students are eligible to partake in school meals that’ll be available at curbside pickup on Thursday when schools are in session.  Those meals, however, must be pre-ordered each week.  When ordering, you are asked to give the student’s full name, school, and date of pickup.  The cost is the same as that which students […]

A Georgia company’s project to administer COVID-19 tests in Westminster three days a week has been scaled back to one day only.  The reason, according to a Covid Consortium spokeswoman, is small numbers of people who want to be tested.  Tests are being given on Wednesdays only, from 9 to 3 in the parking lot of the Community Depot on […]

101.7/WGOG has received a report of an accident on the 123 Seneca ByPass.  The accident involving an SUV and a construction trailer occurred in front of the Wendy’s Restaurant.  The collision has left the left lane blocked to traffic.

Amanda Brock, the Oconee County administrator, will be guest speaker for tomorrow’s meeting of the Golden Corner Rotary Club in Seneca.

Rank-and-file Clemson University employees, including certain athletic department employees, are headed into mandatory furloughs that are to start Tuesday, September 1 and continue for the remainder of the calendar year.  Ongoing financial impacts felt by the university is the explanation for the move.  According to the Clemson announcement, the number of furlough days an employee must take is determined by […]

Seneca’s Thursday night entertainment event “Jazz on the Alley” is taking the week off.  According to city announcement, the cancellation will allow Seneca to evaluate the event’s rate of compliance with Governor McMaster’s COVID-19 guidelines for large gatherings.  Officials hope Jazz may resume next week.

  Two people have been implicated by the Oconee Sheriff’s Office for this month’s fire in a tractor-trailer that was backed up to the Goodwill Industries store near Seneca.  One is Athens, Georgia resident Jennifer Elizabeth Beanes who remained jailed today, charged with third degree burglary, petty larceny, and third degree arson.  The second is a suspect for whom the […]