Author: Dick Mangrum

A Father’s Day weekend tragedy on the grounds of Devil’s Fork State Park at Lake Jocassee.  The coroner says the accident took the life of Benny Esquivel, a 19-month old Asheville, North Carolina boy.  Investigators say around 1:45 Saturday afternoon Benny ran in front of a Jeep Wrangler and died within a half hour at the scene.   Information received by […]

Tonight’s Juneteenth celebration has been moved inside to the Hendrix Student Center at Clemson University.  The walk has been cancelled.  Making possible the local commemoration of the day that federal troops ensured that all enslaved persons were freed are the city of Clemson, Clemson University, the city of Seneca, and Call Me Mister.  Juneteenth is the longest-running African American holiday.  […]

Whether you think increasing or decreasing Oconee school spending is the way to go, you have a chance to speak to those who have the voting authority.  According to the agenda for Tuesday night, county council will hold a hearing on the next budget for the public schools starting with the fiscal year July 1.  

A player in the $3 million deal to make way for a book distribution center near Westminster says a lot of credit goes to Julian Davis, the District 4 councilman who contributed assistance to make the deal work.  (Details on the sale of a former manufacturing building on the Sandifer Blvd. are available in a separate WGOG post and can […]

Word is received at 101.7/WGOG NEWS of an accident on 123/Sandifer Blvd., in front of Wal-Mart.  And a medi-helicopter appears to have landed in the parking lot of Tri-County ACE for the purpose of transporting a wreck victim.

The long-vacated manufacturing building just to the east of Westminster corporate limits has changed hands and will have a new purpose.  The purchase of the former Taylor Made golf equipment plant building was a $3 million transaction, according to realtor Anna Powell of Powell Real Estate.  In an interview this morning, Powell declined to identify the buyer, but described him […]

The county attorney for Oconee, David Root, believes negotiations between the county and the municipalities to effect new fire agreements to cover the unincorporated five-mile radius of the cities are in good shape.  Nevertheless, Root won’t provide further details of where things stand — ahead of what’s believed to be a July 1 deadline to get things done.

To observe, the Juneteenth holiday offices of the city Clemson will be closed on Monday.  Meantime, the Pickens County municipality wishes a Happy Father’s Day.