Author: Dick Mangrum

Pioneer water customers in Fair Play’s Seminole Point subdivision are advised to vigorously boil their water at least one full minute before using it for drinking or cooking purposes.  Pioneer crews are repairing a water main break, and the boil advisory is a precaution.  Any ice made from water that has not been boiled should not be used for drinking […]

A car ran into a house on Seneca’s S. 6th Street at Coleman Street.  Minor personal injuries, but moderate house damage.  Responding were Prisma Health EMS, Seneca police and fire departments.

A missing hiker from Texas, Richard Gonzalez, has been located and today was on the way to a pickup point.  Announcement from Oconee County is the 27-year old Gonzalez, who became separated from his hiking party, is unharmed and more information will follow.  Gonzalez was reported missing Monday on the river somewhere between Nicholson and Burrell’s Ford.

In the country, in the state, and in the county the job picture looks better with the numbers released today.  The filing of 1.19 million Americans for jobless benefits is the lowest since the start of the pandemic.  South Carolina’s Dan Ellzey said, “For the first time since this pandemic began, our initial claims have dipped below the 10,000 mark.  […]

In our story on the internal review that Seneca is conducting to assess how well its police department measures up to diversity and inclusion, 101.7/WGOG NEWS said the city’s actions were prompted by the local protests over George Floyd’s death.  City officials say that is incorrect.  Floyd died May 25 and the protests in Seneca started about one week later.  […]

It is still not too late to be counted as a U-S citizen for the 2020 Census.  You still have time to respond by mail, phone, or online.  Starting next week, however, Census enumerators will start to show up in neighborhoods to track down people who, for whatever reason, have yet to be added to the count.  The count is […]

    A deadline of the noon hour today is in front of all Oconee residents inside three county districts who would like to serve on the board that decides policy for the public schools.  Trustee seats for Districts 2, 4, and 5 are to be voted on during the November General Election and candidates who offer for them do […]

  An internal review is ahead to assess how well relationships in the Seneca Police Department measure up to culturally diverse segments of the population they serve and protect.  The city is announcing the internal review will be kick-started with the hiring of a professional from Spartanburg.  Loretta Smith has more than 25 years as a diversity, equity, and inclusion […]

Starting next week, a Georgia-based company will stage COVID-19 tests in Westminster to individuals without insurance and to cash-paying customers.  The company COVID Consortium plans to test those who come to the parking lot of the Westminster Community Depot starting Wednesday next week.  The company works with multiple labs and is a recipient of federal monies to be used to […]

The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) today announced 1,175 new confirmed cases and 23 new probable cases of the novel coronavirus COVID-19, 45 additional confirmed deaths and 5 new probable deaths.  Oconee saw an addition of 9 new cases, but no additional deaths. This brings the total number of confirmed cases to 94,837, probable cases to 635, confirmed deaths to […]