Author: Dick Mangrum

A caller to 101.7/WGOG expressed concern this afternoon having heard that a wing of Seneca’s Lila Doyle facility is being changed to accommodate COVID-19 patients.  We immediately contacted Prisma Health and have received the following announcement: “In accordance with new federal regulations and out of an abundance of caution, Seneca-based Lila Doyle has retrofitted an area of its facility as […]

A West Union man who is accused of breaking drug laws over a two-year period has been moved from a Georgia jail to the Oconee County jail. According to a report from the Oconee Sheriff’s Office today, Jamie Charles Harvey was booked into the Oconee jail Wednesday afternoon, after having been picked up by Oconee officers at the Jackson County, […]

Only one full day since city leaders cast their vote, Walhalla has been flooded by applications for business assistance grants from the city’s Downtown Development Corporation. So far, according to what the city administrator said today, nearly 20 applications have been received for the available $300 dollar grants. That would be about one-half of the potential number of businesses who […]

Updated South Carolina unemployment numbers are astounding, when you compare them to the numbers of first-time claims that were filed only three weeks ago. During a webinar staged this morning by the Oconee Chamber of Commerce, State Senator Thomas Alexander announced that claims statewide have ballooned from nearly 65 thousand last week to 85 thousand this week. The Oconee-Pickens lawmaker […]

All Women Infant and Children (WIC) nutrition services will be issued remotely. Starting Monday, April 13, South Carolina WIC participants will no longer be required to visit WIC clinics, according to DHEC. Appointments and the issuance of nutritional services will instead be made over-the-phone.“We recognize that many South Carolinian families are facing hardships during this time,” said South Carolina State […]

A police officer in Suwanee County, Florida told the Walhalla police this morning that the man reported missing yesterday from a Walhalla apartment complex has been located in a Florida hospital.  The Walhalla police quote the Florida police officer as saying Robert William Stevens is in a hospital there, being checked in the emergency room, and is OK. The Walhalla […]

Kershaw County unexpectedly became an early South Carolina’s hotspot for COVID-19 cases. KershawHealth hospital in Camden experienced a surge in COVID-19 cases in March, and Prisma Health transferred five ventilators to the Camden facility. The ventilators were rapidly put into service for critical patients who needed breathing support as they fought COVID-19. “We are proud to serve as a regional […]

The 3-D printers in Tri-County Technical College’s fabrication lab have been running non-stop since Wednesday, April 1, when the faculty and staff from the Engineering and Industrial Technology (EIT) Division answered the call from area EMS agencies and began making personal protective equipment (PPE) for these frontline health care workers who are struggling to find this necessary gear during the […]

Georgia has called off the rest of their public school year. A retiring bus driver in another part of the country has told us he believes he has driven his last school bus. Glum assessments are beginning to add up as to the possibility that even if the curve is flattened, the current public school year can’t be salvaged. The […]