Author: Dick Mangrum

From its Main Street, Walhalla office, Visit Oconee has determined that the shows put on by the Center for the Performing Arts are the keys to bringing visitors downtown.  These visitors, Ken Sloan says, keep local cash registers ringing and keep the tables in downtown restaurants full of diners who want a meal before they see one of the shows […]

A Six Mile man was the car driver who lost his life in a Sunday night accident which the state patrol called a head-on crash on SC 137.  Andrew Wilson, Pickens County’s chief deputy coroner, identified the fatality as 23-year-old Christopher James Grant.  According to Wilson, a passenger in Grant’s car and the driver of the second vehicle were treated […]

Walhalla United is described as a platform for sharing information about events and initiatives within the city of Walhalla.  And as the chamber of commerce director and others put it last night it’s about connectivity.  Standing-room-only was the crowd inside the community meeting room of the Center for the Performing Arts as the chamber’s Dari McBride convened the second meeting […]

Ideal conditions are present for voters today headed for the polls in South Carolina’s primary elections.  A variety of choices face the electorate, including which men or women shall be their party’s nominee for the U-S House of Representatives.  101.7/WGOG NEWS will provide periodic reports starting at 7:30 tonight from the vote-tabulating headquarters.  And, by night’s end, we plan to […]

A feral cat found near Westminster has been confirmed by DHEC as having tested positive for rabies.  One person was exposed and has been referred to their health care provider.  The stray cat, found near the Toccoa Highway and the Pickens Road, was sent to the DHEC Tuesday, June 4 and confirmed to have rabies the next day.  If you […]

The body of a 33-year-old Piedmont, South Carolina man was pulled from the Saluda River just after the noon hour today, and the coroner says an investigation is underway.  Greg Shore, the Anderson County coroner, says Cody Alexander Coleman died after jumping into the river as he was being chased by county deputies.  Shore says preliminary investigation shows Coleman’s vehicle […]

An equipment failure is responsible for spoiling the lunch meals that the Oconee School District intended to distribute in its summer feeding program.  As a result, this week’s meal packages (for Wednesday, June 12) will have food for five breakfasts only. It will not include food for lunches.  To all participants in this weekly service, the district apologizes.

An experiment in a physics lab led a Clemson University student from the Anderson County town of Williamston to research in low-temperature physics.  Maggie Marte now has gained national recognition as a 2024 Astronaut Scholar.  It’s awarded to exceptional undergraduate students pursuing degrees in “STEM” — science, technology, engineering and math.  Marte tested a sample’s electric resistance at very low […]

A pending, seven-year-old lawsuit against Oconee County is now scheduled as a civil court trial to start Monday, July 15 at the county courthouse.  The plaintiff is David Stokes, former county building official.  In April, a judge rejected a defense motion to dismiss Stokes’ challenge of the county’s decision to remove him in 2017.  It’s believed the last legal ground […]