Author: Dick Mangrum

“City of Walhalla Water Department 6 month Payment Plan Terms, Conditions and Agreement. Balance Effective Period March 17, 2020 – July 24, 2020 Final date to apply and first payment is due on or before August 12, 2020 No late applications or payments will be accepted. The City of Walhalla is offering customers with a delinquent water account the opportunity to […]

No matter what business you drop by, you are likely to hear the proprietor or simply an employee talk of the difficulty of staying afloat in the pandemic.  Even the optimistic leader of the Oconee Chamber of Commerce concedes that, with the changing severity of COVID-19, what you might know in the morning changes as early as the afternoon.  Still […]

Information is likely to be available early next week on a project designed to offer free COVID-19 tests to people in Westminster who do not have adequate insurance.  A planning meeting is to take place Tuesday morning involving Westminster Councilman Brad Chastain, Westminster physician Billy Campbell, and representatives of the COVID Consortium.

Owners of two of Seneca’s tornado-damaged homes have won their appeals with a city regulatory board.  The board of appeals decided last night to make exceptions for projects on Julian Drive and Pinecrest Drive–two of the areas hardest hit by the EF3 tornado.  Further details on those successful appeals can be heard today on 101.7/WGOG NEWS.

101.7/WGOG NEWS has learned there is concern this morning for an Oconee County hiker who failed to meet a rendezvous, and a search-rescue is being re-organized this morning at Mountain Rest.  Specific details as to exactly where the hiker might be were not immediately clear.

South Carolina is a state that observes a Confederate memorial day, but in Oconee County the school trustees have decided to restrict the wearing and display of Confederate memorabilia.  Amendments to the code of conduct and student dress policies were approved during this week’s trustees meeting.  A provision of the student dress rules now reads:  “Any garment or accessory that […]

South Carolina DSS announces the allotment of $154 million in federal SNAP benefit money as a one-time benefit to help families supplement food costs.  Eligible for the benefit are families impacted by the pandemic, the prolonged school closings, and whose children are enrolled in a free or reduced-price school meals program.  The benefit is called P-EBT.  Every dollar in federally-funded […]

An 18-year old West Union man received a helicopter trip to a Greenville hospital after a one-car accident shortly after 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon near Seneca.  A spokesman for the state patrol withheld the name of the driver.  Public safety officials described the accident as having occurred on the Mauldin Mill Road at or near Radio Station Road.  The patrol’s […]

For a second week, first-time unemployment claims made by members of the Oconee workforce have jumped.  This time, the jump is more dramatic than it was one week ago.  According to the figures culled from the state Department of Employment and Workforce, 521 Oconeeans filed first-time claims for the week ended July 18.  That’s 245 more than the week that […]