Author: Dick Mangrum

Seneca will use a Greenville company to help qualify for millions of dollars in reimbursement costs from the April 13 tornado.  And it’s the same company that Oconee County has contracted.  City Council last night agreed to contract with Goodwyn, Mills and Caywood.  A second company, from Arkansas was interested, but Councilwoman Denise Rozman said she was more comfortable knowing […]

A late afternoon accident near Seneca injured a motorcyclist near Seneca on the Mauldin Mill Road.  Chief Caudill of the Seneca Fire Department said that although the motorcyclist’s injuries were non-life threatening, he was nevertheless helicoptered to a Greenville hospital. The cyclist, who wore a helmet, was thrown from his bike about 60 feet and landed on road pavement.

Over an 11-hour period, according to Prisma Health, 924 people took the tests to determine whether they are infectious.  And, for many of those wishing to know, they sat in their cars in line waiting for their turn.  It’s the second time that health authorities have used the grounds of Seneca’s Blue Ridge Elementary for testing.

Walhalla has a new tool to help keep down speeding violations.  On loan from the state police is a portable speed radar trailer.  For now, it is positioned at the Blue Ridge Boulevard- Kenneth Street traffic lights and indicates the speed with which motor vehicles enter the city limits.  According to Chief Sean Brinson, there’s a sudden drop to a […]

The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) today announced 2,205 new confirmed cases and two new probable cases of the novel coronavirus COVID-19, 23 additional confirmed deaths and no new probable deaths. There are currently 1,550 hospital beds occupied by patients who have either tested positive or are under investigation for COVID-19, and 203 of those patients are currently on […]

The executive director of the Oconee Chamber of Commerce, JoAnn Johnson, has conveyed a message of encouragement to the local business community which has its hands full in providing services to the public while still complying with the safety recommendations of health authorities.  In a message sent out to chamber members at the end of last week Johnson wrote, in […]

(Update:  Oconee Sheriff’s Office reports the boy was found in Greenville by that county’s sheriff’s office and has been returned to his family.) The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s help today in locating a juvenile who was reported missing from the Salem area.   A deputy from the Uniform Patrol Division responded to an address on N. […]

Once again, vehicles are wrapped around an Oconee County test event location.  A day-long testing event for COVID-19 is underway at Seneca’s Blue Ridge elementary School.  And from what we are told from people on the scene, patience is a good virtue to have for the wait.

By 11:59 pm July 12, DHEC’s COVID-19 case totals for Oconee stood at 448.  By our count, if you add the four additional cases reported yesterday, the latest Oconee count is 452.  With still one confirmed death, it is believed that many of those 452 have recovered or are recuperating.  Unless you’ve been on a shuttle to outer space, you […]