Author: Dick Mangrum

The highway patrol has announced the death today of a moped rider who was hurt in a weekend afternoon accident near Westminster.  Coroner Addis identified the decedent as Jim Rose, 68-year old Westminster resident.  Death to the moped rider came at 7:06 this morning at Prisma Health Greenville.  The accident, described as a spill, occurred at 2:15 pm Sunday on […]

Oconee County is fast approaching 1,000 COVID-19 cases, since the counting started in March.  Five additional cases were added to the county’s totals (now 998) in today’s DHEC report, along with two additional Oconee County deaths. Both were elderly persons who died on August 9 and 17.  According to a DHEC spokeswoman, Oconee’s COVID-19 death toll stands at 16, counting […]

In anticipation of delayed revenues, Seneca will take the borrowing route to recover expenses from the April tornado as well as a drop in revenue resulting from the financial impacts of COVID-19. In last night’s special meeting, the city council gave final approval to a $2.5 million dollar general obligation (taxpayer-backed) bond. City administrator Scott Moulder explained that the general […]

The spokeswoman for Oconee School District says a Walhalla High student who reported testing positive for COVID-19 never entered the building, and there’s no need to quarantine a classroom or even the entire student body.  Spokeswoman Jennifer Dodd says the local district received clarification from the state Department of Education yesterday that these circumstances do not require the district to […]

  A motorist was taken to the hospital early yesterday afternoon after his car crashed into a small storage building at SC 28/the Highlands Highway, and Lake Jemiki Road.  Walhalla fire fighters were among the responders.  Later in the day they provided support to the Salem Fire Department as it tended to a home fire on the Flat Shoals Road.

City of Westminster has scheduled an electric power outage this evening.  From around 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm customers will be affected in the area of North and South Bibb streets, Louise Court, and S. Pew Street.  The outage purpose:  to upgrade the transformers in those areas.

Two city councilmen in Westminster say they will step down December 31 after one year of their four-year terms.  This after, Rusty Cater and Danny Duncan voted in the minority last night on whether to restore a one-sentence provision to the city’s policy against nepotism.  That one-sentence addition will make ineligible immediate members of the family of an elected city […]

At their meeting, Oconee County Parks, Recreation and Tourism commissioners are scheduled to vote on seven different grant applications.  If all of the applicants are eventually approved, a total of more than $50 thousand will have been distributed.  Largest requests are sought by the city of Seneca to advertise the 11th annual Half Marathon and 5K and by Discover Upcountry […]