Author: Dick Mangrum

Vista Drive and Vista Circle in Clemson are the spot for a city-contracted utility company to inspect and complete repairs in the right-of-way of that neighborhood’s wastewater collection infrastructure.  The repairs are designed to correct any obstruction issues in the lines.

In a popular TV series way back in the last century, Jackie Gleason’s sidekick, Art Carney, spent his working days in the sewers of New York.  Not a glamourous job, but a necessary one.  These days there’s great need for workers to man Oconee’s treatment plant, as several of the plant’s workers are within a few years of retirement and […]

At the committee level, there are questions about the capability of Oconee’s sewer plant to meet the needs of a growing county.  Those questions and, to an extent, concerns were raised at yesterday’s full meeting of the board of the Joint Regional Sewer Authority.  Chris Eleazer, JRSA executive director, concedes there’s a lot of talk about housing building boom within […]

Polling places are open 7 am to 7 pm today in all of Oconee’s towns and cities, and any voter in line before 7 tonight will be allowed to vote.  If you are a qualified voter in any of the county’s five towns and cities (and have not voted early or by absentee) you can find your polling place and […]

Just after 3:15 this morning, Oconee Rural Fire Control received calls of a home fire on Gammell Street, Utica.  No one was hurt, but fire fighters from two stations still at the scene after the call reporting fire.

Oconee fire officials provide the following explanation for the flashing lights at midafternoon on the Food Lion property between Seneca and Clemson:  There an ambulance and fire truck and personnel prepared for a landing zone for a medical helicopter.  Chief Christenbury of the Corinth-Shiloh Fire Department said the landing zone was requested by Clemson University, but he was unaware of […]

A health clinic at Seneca that qualifies as a federally-qualified clinic is seeing dividends from its association with the national government.  The U-S Department of Health and Human Services today named the Rosa Clark Medical Clinic, on the grounds of the Prisma Health Oconee Memorial Hospital, a recipient of a digital badge.  It’s one of only three in the state […]