Author: Dick Mangrum

The state has empathy for Seneca Borg Warner employees who, when leaving the plant parking lot, often sit in line waiting to turn left onto the Wells Highway.  The DOT has decided that Wells Highway at the plant entrance qualifies for a set of traffic lights, as explained this week by the Oconee-Pickens state senator, Thomas Alexander.  The senator says […]

A 25 year old Seneca man has been jailed, on a combined $441,345.00 surety bond, after his arrest Tuesday on multiple charges in relation to two separate investigations. 25 year old John Melvin Miller, Jr., of Sitton Mill Road, was booked into the Oconee County Detention Center around 1:52pm Tuesday. Miller, Jr. was taken into custody yesterday, at a hotel […]

The importance of early detection of heart disease was illuminated to the December meeting of the Walhalla City Council.  On behalf of the Nola Network, Jocelyn Bybee explained how young people can avoid sudden cardiac arrest through early screenings.  On school campuses, she said, sudden cardiac arrest is the number cause of student deaths. Bybee has a personal experience with […]

Oconee Humane Society is looking for the right person to adopt a five-year-old lab that has healed from an injured leg.  Her name is Jessie and here’s what the Humane Society says about her:  “…despite being abandoned and dealing with an injured leg, arrived at the shelter with a sweet, timid soul.  She was placed in a wonderful foster home […]

A petition filed with the Oconee Common Pleas Court seeks approval to settle a claim against the county school district, a claim started after a youngster was hurt April 18 when he was pushed to the ground by students playing football.  The petition filed for Deanna Lynn Swafford, parent and natural guardian of a minor under 18 years old.  The […]

All branches of the Oconee County Public Library will be closed Friday, December 22, through Tuesday, December 26. All locations reopen at their normal times on Wednesday, December 27. All branches will also be closed Saturday, December 30, through Monday, January 1, for New Year’s. All locations will reopen at their normal times on Tuesday, January 2. The website, oconeelibrary.org, […]

The issue of what Walhalla requires to continue to send its cross-trained fire department to answer calls within a five-mile radius of the corporate limits appears to have been satisfied for this year.  But as the newly-elected councilman Kenny Johns put it last night Walhalla would like to negotiate a higher payment from county government.  For this year, that payment […]

Westminster has been approved for a grant of three-quarters of a million dollars.  On its way to Oconee’s third largest city is $750 thousand dollars of Community Development Block money, funded by the U-S Department of Housing and Urban Development.  Reagan Osbon, assistant city administrator, says the monies are to be applied for downtown streetscape work taking in Retreat Street […]