Author: Dick Mangrum

A rush hour accident left wrecked cars in Seneca’s Miracle Circle intersection.  The police reported minor injuries for two people.  Earlier yesterday afternoon a woman was seen on a stretcher after an accident on North First Street near Cherry Street.

Seneca’s elected leaders took a preliminary vote last night on new spending and revenues for a new year of city government.  The proposed budgets are balanced, says the city administrator.  They are highlighted by the first property tax increase since 2019, and include upcharges for other services such as water and electric power.  The city council gave unanimous approval to […]

Stewart Jones, one of the eight Republican hopefuls for the Third District congressional seat, stopped at 101.7/WGOG on a day of campaigning in Oconee County, ahead of Tuesday’s primary election.  Jones, a state representative from Laurens County, plans this evening to make one of his stops Seneca’s Jazz on the Alley.  With so many men and women on the ballot […]

A court hearing is set Tuesday in Walhalla to settle a case of wrongful death allegations against Prisma Health Upstate and the Oconee Memorial Hospital.  An attorney for plaintiff Brad White of Pickens County will ask Judge McIntosh to approve a negotiated settlement at the pre-trial stage.  Under the terms of the negotiated settlement White, as special administrator for the […]

For 10 years, Preston Pierce has managed Duke Energy’s Jocassee Hydro Station.  Ahead of next week’s celebration of the hydro station’s 50th year, Pierce spoke to 101.7/WGOG NEWS about the public event that takes place there a week from tomorrow – Friday morning, June 15, and what visitors will get to see.  The hydro station was built in 1973 to […]

Everyone interested in Walhalla and its future is invited by the city to a meeting next week for a talk on current developments in Oconee’s second largest city.  The event is called Walhalla United, and it’ll take place at 6 o’clock Monday evening at the Center for the Performing Arts on N. Broad Street.

Word from the state capital this afternoon is that former Senecan Letitia Hamilton Verdin has won a seat on the South Carolina Supreme Court.  Senator Alexander says she was voted-in by a joint session of the legislature in a vote of 152-0.  Verdin currently sits on the state Appeals Court.  She’s one of three daughters of the late Angela and […]

Senator Lindsey Graham, SC-Republican, is part of a bi-partisan Senate delegation on their way to Normandy, France for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion by Allied Forces during the Second World War.  That landing and the fighting that ensued allowed the Allies to crush the Nazi World War 2 takeover of most of Europe.  “There will be 100 American […]