Author: Dick Mangrum

To put to rest the continuous squabble over the mayor’s cabin, the Westminster City Council proceeded with its March meeting last night, even though a power outage left the meeting room without lights. That problem was solved when a member of the county’s Emergency Service set up portable lighting which gave an almost candlelight glow to the meeting. Addressing the […]

The lights have returned to Westminster, and its electric power customers are likely to say not a moment too soon.  From around 8 o’clock in the morning to around midnight, Tuesday was a very long and frustrating day for customers and city officials.  Outside help was required to replace an old transformer with a spare one. The city’s outside consultant, […]

South Carolina restaurants are under orders to provide only take-out orders for customers.  The order came down yesterday and was acknowledged to 101.7/WGOG NEWS by a Westminster restaurateur, Yousef Mefleh.  Mefleh says his restaurant will stay open, but food prepared will be available only to take-out customers.

“Effective immediately, the Oconee Joint Regional Sewer Authority (OJRSA) will modify services for the foreseeable future in order to protect its employees, their families, and the community by reducing opportunities to spread COVID-19 in our community. The agency will monitor the situation and act in accordance with recommendations provided by federal, state, and local authorities. Based on current CDC and […]

Westminster anticipates the return of electric power service soon. Mayor Ramey late this afternoon said a crane is in place and it’s a matter of replacing one electric transformer with a spare transformer.

It didn’t take long for a scammer to think of way to take advantage of virus epidemic. Oconee Sheriff’s Office wants county residents aware of a potential scam. The sheriff’s public information office was told today that a county resident received a call from something called the Coronavirus Hotline that purported that if someone were on Medicare the Medicare recipient […]

An Oconee deputy spoke to a crime victim who is out $14 thousand dollars from a transaction card fraud incident. Investigators would like your help if you can offer any information on this case, which is part of a fraud investigation that stretches across the Carolinas. The Oconee deputy learned that someone got information from the fraud victim; as a […]

Oconee public school children are being kept away from their classrooms, but the school district has made plans to feed any child breakfast and lunch for each day that would have been a scheduled school day through the current closure. Meals will be available on the following dates: Wednesday through Friday, March 18-20; March 23-27; March 30; and March 31. […]

Two Westminster area residents—a man and a woman—are charged with homicide by child abuse. The Oconee Sheriff’s Office announcement stated that Ronnie Glenn Christen and Molly Morgan Spivey were originally arrested last year on charges of unlawful neglect of a child. They are now charged with homicide by child abuse of what, according to law enforcement, was blunt force head […]