Author: Dick Mangrum

Road closings are in place in downtown Walhalla today for Jeep Fest 2024.  Organizers offer a jumbo video screen displaying the noon hour Clemson-Georgia game.  After game, country rocker Leah Seawright and Mark Herndon of Alabama-game perform in a free, outdoor Main Street concert.  Main Street downtown is closed from Ann to Tugaloo streets both ways.  Ken’s Pharmacy customers can […]

City of Seneca and Light and Water offices are closed on Monday, for Labor Day.  The night deposit, however, remains open for utility payments.  In an emergency situation, please call 864/885-2723 for assistance.

The Clemson University Department of Plant Industry destroyed multiple nests near Hilton Head Island of yellow-legged hornets, a potentially devastating pest.  The secondary nests were found in trees.  It was a search and destroy mission that included traps and on-site monitoring by department personnel.  Clemson inspectors are asking homeowners to allow them access to their property as they continue their […]

System overload.  That’s one way to explain why the Oconee County jail system of storing and transmitting fingerprint records has far exceeded capacity.  The current system was designed to store 50 thousand fingerprint records, but currently stores 78 thousand – far above capacity.  The solution being recommended to the county council next week is converting the records to what’s called […]

A 38-year-old man near Seneca has been arrested by Oconee Sheriff’s Office on charges of kidnapping and domestic violence first degree.   Kerry Orlando Hollins allegedly assaulted a female last weekend at his Bountyland apartment home and seized her phone, preventing her from calling for help. According to the domestic violence arrest warrant, Hollins allegedly punched the female and used a […]

The mulch fire at a debris recycling business near Seneca proved stubborn to contain and extinguish.  And a fire chief has confirmed that fire fighters returned this morning to investigate a re-kindling.  Mulch fires are prone to occur when the weather is both hot and dry, and Chief Christenbury of the Corinth-Shiloh Fire Department believes those ingredients were in place […]

101.7/WGOG NEWS has learned that a first-term state department head will make the featured talk at this year’s Rotary South Carolina Apple Festival luncheon in Westminster.  We are told an announcement is being prepared to name Ellen Weaver, state superintendent of education, as the Friday, September 6 luncheon speaker.  The event is timed as part of and ahead of the […]

A Seneca man received the highest award for staff excellence from Tri-County Technical College.  Dr. Mark Doughtery, dean of students received the Presidential Medallion for Staff Excellence, presented to him by college president Galen DeHay yesterday during the fall convocation of the college.  The medallion goes to a person who best exemplifies the Tech philosophy and who contributed the most […]