Author: Dick Mangrum

A total of 32 votes added to the running count of Oconee’s municipal electorate who are taking advantage of Early Voting opportunities — ahead of next week’s town and city elections countywide.  As it has been the case, all of the action is centered in Seneca and Walhalla.  County Elections took in 14 Seneca votes yesterday; 18 from Walhalla.  Voters […]

Soccer nets now take up Kapp Field where they used to play youth baseball.  Something new is on the way there:  a PetSafe dog park.  Scott Moulder, city administrator, says along Quincy Road the city is building a dog park there, with an entrance patio. Kapp Field is now officially inside the Bennie Cunningham Jr. Park.  Cunningham of both college […]

A one-hour time change becomes official this weekend.  A good way to keep up with the end of Daylight-Saving Time for this year is to rewind watches and clocks back one hour before going to bed on Saturday night.  In spring, we spring forward one hour; in the fall, we rewind one hour.

To help Walhalla drivers head the correct way on the city’s new one-way street, the city is considering “better visuals” for vehicles entering S. Catherine from the city parking lot that wraps around Catherine and S. Broad streets.  The one-block section of Catherine, from Main to S. Broad, is now a one-way for traffic headed down from the Main Street […]

Walhalla Fire Department responded this morning to a motorcycle collision with an animal on the Playground Road, and there are indications the motorcyclist has been sent to a Greenville hospital for injuries.

A doctoral student at Clemson, Madeline Clyburn, will use a “NASA” research grant to investigate the physics of merging black holes.  Out in space, a black hole is a region so strong that nothing has enough energy to escape it.  Clyburn will use a computer simulation to predict how massive black hole binaries will appear to telescopes in the final […]

Walhalla and its contested mayor and council races continues to dominate the field of early voting, ahead of the Oconee County municipal elections now just one week away.  Yesterday on day six of early voting, 22 Walhallans cast early ballots.  Five did so in Seneca.  There are no contested races in Salem, West Union, and Westminster, and none of their […]