Author: Dick Mangrum

A group of 30 to 35 people took part in the National Day of Prayer event in Salem.  Tony Brown, Salem Baptist Church pastor, led the group in thought and prayer.  Salem’s just one of several such events today across Oconee.

South Carolina’s Tim Scott applauds the passage by the House of his Antisemitism Awareness Act and decries as reprehensible and alarming what’s happening on college campus such as Yale, UCLA and Columbia.  The junior South Carolina U-S senator says, “When people engage in harassment or bullying of Jewish individuals where they justify the killing of Jews or use blood libel […]

A member of the Anderson County Fire Department, the late Joseph Barr, will be among those in the profession to be remembered this weekend in Emmitsburg, Maryland during the 43rd National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Weekend.  In all, the observance will honor 89 firefighters who died in the line of duty in 2023 and 137 who died in previous years.  Barr, […]

A Westminster cleanup day is scheduled Saturday.  Mayor Ramey requests that all who would like to lend a hand to make the city a cleaner place should gather at 9 o’clock Saturday morning at the gazebo next to the depot.  As part of the cleanup, flowers will be planted.

At 4 o’clock this afternoon Mayor Tim Hall will call to order a budget workshop which is to include a presentation on Walhalla’s next budget for the new fiscal year starting in July.  Also at today’s city hall meeting the finance committee receives a presentation from the city’s county councilman, Matthew Durham.

Under the theme of Lift up the Word, Light Up the World, a National Day of Prayer service takes place during the noon hour today at Seneca’s Shaver Recreation Center.  It’s just one of a number of National Day of Prayer events taking place in Oconee County.  Another is in Salem at 9 o’clock this morning at the flagpole in […]

Seneca’s state lawmaker, the District 2 lawmaker Bill Sandifer, believes a House-passed bill would help those who pay health care charges — especially those left dumfounded by the charges and left to wonder why they are so high.  After having arrived in Columbia this week, Sandifer spoke to 101.7/WGOG NEWS about the approval of H.4622, now being reviewed by the […]

Oconee Sheriff’s Office seeks the public’s help to locate a 22-year-old man considered a wanted subject in an April 19 shooting incident in Utica.  Nicolas Sebastian Palmero is the second man charged in the investigation.  Against him is the allegation:  discharging a firearm into a dwelling.  The sheriff’s office requests any information on the whereabouts of 22-year-old Palmero by calling […]

The two candidates to be the GOP nominee for District Two, Oconee County Council are at loggerheads over the extent to which there are problems with the county’s elections.  Incumbent Matthew Durham and challenger India Lancaster took on a question of whether the county’s elections office failed a government audit, with Durham saying no audit was failed, rather an assessment […]

Westminster City Council in a special meeting passed the first of two required votes to allow Kansas and Florida-based companies to design and build the city’s new recreation complex on Hall Street.  The representatives of those companies, Mammoth Sports Construction of Meriden, Kansas and SFC, Sports Facilities Companies of Clearwater, Florida, made clear to the council that while their base […]