Author: Dick Mangrum

Outages that affected nearly 400 Duke power customers at Walhalla are, at this hour, are resolved, according to one city official.  The outages were the result of the early morning power line and transformer fire on Lakeside Drive.

At Seneca, a whisk of wind is all that was required last night for an umbrella-awning draped over the fire department building to become unhitched and fly over the building.  The damaged umbrella was located at the back of the fire station.

The state and the federal governments have made official what a lot of people in the Seneca area know only too well.  The morning of April 13 made for a disaster that many people are still trying to recover from.  The federal government now promises a way to make that easier. At the request of Governor Henry McMaster, President Donald Trump […]

The board of the Seneca Improvements Corporation will take up business matters during a Wednesday morning meeting at City Hall.  Up for consideration is an economic development improvement application from Salon K and Phillip and Kandace Addington, along with a commercial building improvement application for a pizza restaurant at 403 E. Main Street.  Anyone attending the 8 o’clock Wednesday morning […]

Multiple sources have given 101.7/WGOG NEWS information to indicate that Dollar General has interest in placing a store in downtown Walhalla.

Anyone who ventures into a meeting today in Seneca will be required to submit to a temperature check conducted with a non-contact digital thermometer.  Those are the ground rules set for today’s special meeting of the policy-making board of the Oconee Joint Regional Sewer Authority.  The meeting is planned at 4 o’clock at the Gignilliat Community Center.

On the heels of the governor’s lifting of the “Home or Work” order, Salem’s charter school, the Next School, will recognize its 18 graduating seniors. Senior Appreciation Night will take place at 7 Thursday night in a drive-thru event in which the school will require social distancing rules. The seniors are to be spaced appropriately in front of the school. […]

Pet food will be given away by the Oconee Humane Society today in Walhalla. Humane Society workers will set up at the Walhalla Visitor’s Center, 105 W. S. Broad Street, from 11 to 1 on to provide pet food for anyone.

An 18-year old Greenville woman was killed early yesterday afternoon in a fall in Pickens County.  Coroner Kandy Kelley says the death of Nathalie Ann Ospina occurred in an incident at the Twin Falls in the Sunset Community.  Ospina’s death is being investigated by the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office.

The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control announced on Sunday 141 new cases of the novel coronavirus COVID-19, and 8 additional deaths. This brings the total number of people confirmed to have COVID-19 in South Carolina to 6,626 and those who have died to 275. The eight deaths occurred in elderly individuals from Berkeley (1), Clarendon (1), Greenville […]