Author: Dick Mangrum

An SUV and a pickup truck collided, accounts indicate head-on, in a late afternoon crash yesterday in northern Oconee County on SC 130, near the water bottling plant.  According to Salem Fire and Rescue, three of the injured were child-age, and one of them was airlifted out of precaution to an out of county hospital.  Ground transportation carried five others […]

At a glance, a serious late morning traffic accident in Seneca.  However, according to the first police report, no one hurt.  The accident had westbound traffic blocked inside the By-Pass intersection at SC 130/the Rochester Highway.

If nature cooperates, Walhalla will begin to see sidewalk work this week.  Celia Myers, city administrator, says it’s not new sidewalk, but repairs to many of Walhalla’s crumbling pedestrian paths.  HDH Construction is the contractor, and Myers says the first of the repairs will take place at Main and N. Tugaloo streets.

Oconee students as young as the elementary grade age can have a part in this year’s November General Election.  The office of Voter Registration and Elections invites county students in grades K-12 the chance to design a new “I Voted” stickers to be given to voters who cast ballots for the November election.  Entries will be accepted Wednesday, June 5 […]

101.7/WGOG NEWS has learned that family and friends of former Senecan Letitia Verdin plan to be at the State House this week for what they hope — and expect — is the election of Verdin as a new state Supreme Court justice. Currently, Verdin is a member of the state’s second highest court, the Court of Appeals.  The Supreme Court […]

Westminster electric power customers were lamenting the fact that their day started yesterday without lights.  Here’s the explanation of what happened, as gathered by city administrator Kevin Bronson:  “The rain (Sunday) this morning caused a tree limb to fall on an electric line.  The line was close to the electric substation which caused the circuit breakers to trip.  Power was […]

Weekend reports indicate that in the opening days of early voting, 978 Oconeeans cast ballots ahead of the primary elections — to take place a week from tomorrow.  Pat Murray, president of Oconee Republican Women, said Saturday she’d like to see that number increase.

Bill Sandifer, the 29-year state lawmaker from Seneca, says he has a stellar conservative record, but is being lied about in a smear campaign that, he says, is coming from out-of-state groups allied with a small fringe of fellow Republicans at the State House.  The smear campaign, Rep. Sandifer says, has taken the form of what he called “nasty grams” […]