Author: Dick Mangrum

Officeholders and residents in four Oconee municipalities will have decisions to make next month when candidate qualifying takes place for their 2019 elections. Salem, Walhalla, West Union, and Westminster all will elect mayors and members of their town and city councils this year on Tuesday, November 5. Seneca will be the only Oconee municipality to sit out this election. Joy […]

Fifty years after American astronauts walked on the moon, the Westminster Branch of the Oconee Public Library will stage a space-themed event designed to be a blast-off to a fun family night.  That event will be 6:30 Monday night at the library and will offer space-themed trivia, prizes, crafts and more.

Salem residents have a special invitation tonight to give input into the next Oconee County Comprehensive Plan.  The county planning commission sponsors a listening session at 6 tonight in the town facilities at 5 Park Avenue.

Apparently in the next few months there’ll be an opening in the top job in the office of Oconee Economic Alliance.  Paul Cain, chairman of the planning and economic development committee of the county council, says outgoing director Janet Hartman has indicated she’s willing to help with the transition of whoever is chosen to be the next chief economic development […]

Walhalla’s Stumphouse Tunnel Park remains closed for a second day today to allow repair work to continue.

Seneca’s Jazz on the Alley tonight will showcase the Ride to Work Ministry as its featured non-profit.  You have an invitation to stop by the ministry’s tent between 6 and 9 o’clock and say hello and learn about the project to help solve transportation issues faced by some members of the local workforce.

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office Dispatch received a call this morning that someone was found injured in woods near Seneca at Hope Avenue and Thrasher Road . Officers found a white male with a head injury. The victim was airlifted to Greenville PRISMA Health at 8:30am. There is no known condition of the victim at this time. If you or […]

Walhalla Planning Commission next week welcomes comment on a re-zone application that, if OK’d, would allow for a new home development pf 20 to 23 houses on Tyre B. Mauldin Street.  Already there’s some opposition developing to the project that would go cover part of the street, from S. Poplar to S. Chestnut.  Nearby resident Keith Pace of WS Broad […]

Toccoa-Stephens County residents will want to watch The History Channel later today to see the episode of “The Strongest Man in History,” that was recorded in Toccoa earlier this year. Parts of the episode were filmed at the Paul Anderson Memorial Park in Toccoa, and the episode’s main focus will be Paul Anderson’s world records. In January, four weight lifters […]