Author: Dick Mangrum

Seneca City Hall is closing at 4 this afternoon, in anticipation of a rally of protest over last week’s death of a man at the hands of police in Minneapolis.  The Seneca police are hopeful that the rally will be peaceful; however, out of abundance of caution the decision was made by the city administrator to close City Hall early […]

Oconee County’s three high schools graduate a total of 652 high school seniors in separate ceremonies planned the morning of Saturday, June 20.  Here are the numbers and other related information released today by the Oconee public schools, as requested by 101.7/WGOG NEWS.  The largest senior class, 254 graduates, will come from Walhalla High School.  Seneca is to graduate 224 […]

Monday, June 8 is the target date for Ripple of One to open its first re-sale store.  The location will be a spot in the Oconee Square Shopping Center.  Stephanie Enders, Ripple of One founder, says her program sees a re-sale store as a good way to create an added stream of revenue for the good work that Ripple of […]

The Oconee County Public Library will be moving to the next phase of resumed operations on Monday, June 15, when it reopens the libraries to the public. Since May 18, 2020, the library has been offering curbside pickup of items, a service which will continue even once the library opens its doors. All branches will be open for limited hours […]

Senator Lindsey Graham cast his vote by in-person absentee voting just moments ago at Oconee’s Pine Street complex, and afterward addressed reporters about the story that has supplanted COVID-19 as the top story in the country–the death of George Floyd and the protests that have followed.  101.7/WGOG NEWS during the 12 and 5 local newscasts will re-play many of Graham’s […]

Business pertaining to a moneymaking arm of government will take stage tomorrow in front of the Oconee County Council.  The council and the public are being alerted for, what’s described as, “Discussion and actions regarding the Oconee County Rock Quarry, Quarry Operations, Quarry pricing, and related matters.”  According to tomorrow night’s meeting agenda, public comment regarding the quarry will be […]

After the deluge of rainfall in the Golden Corner in recent months, the level of rain returned to practically a normal amount in May.  Walhalla’s official weather watcher Barbara Wilson measured 5.26″ during May and that, she says, is just about normal for that 31-day month.  Walhalla’s high temperature of 89 degrees was recorded on May 25; the low temperature […]

Westminster Councilman Yusef Mefleh is hopeful that another vote during a budget preparation meeting will clinch the deal for his city to create two new police officers for his city for the year that will start July 1.  City budget troubles in the last few years have left the police department thinly staffed, and that’s worrisome to Mefleh and others.

A motorcycle accident yesterday in Pickens County took the lives of a man and a woman.  Coroner Kandy Kelley identified the dead as Thomas Cody Bowen, 30-year old Pickens resident, and Amanda Faye Neely, 39-year old Belton resident.  They were involved in an accident Sunday on Old Liberty Road, Pickens.  Bowen was the motorcycle operator.  The coroner said that neither […]