Author: Dick Mangrum

According to a newspaper report, some families that lived in New York City shelters were sent to 373 cities across the country, including one homeless person sent to Clemson, South Carolina.  The investigative report by the New York Post said New York City secretly exported the homeless and gave them a full year of rent. In many cases, according to […]

The South Carolina Department of Public Safety (SCDPS) and law enforcement partners statewide will conduct stringent enforcement of impaired driving laws as part of its Sober or Slammer! campaign running through January 1. Troopers are encouraging drivers to make a plan now for a safe ride home from parties and celebrations this holiday season. The annual Sober or Slammer! Christmas/New […]

More than 1,300 students receive their degrees this week in a pair of graduation ceremonies at Clemson University.  The ceremonies will be Thursday at Littlejohn Coliseum, at 9:30 am and 1:30 pm.  Here are a couple of things to keep in mind if you are going:  The university’s clear bag policy will be in effect.  Because of the installation of […]

If you are still having trouble arriving at the Christmas spirit, you might stop by the Walhalla Post Office.  Thanks to the creativity of the Advanced Art Class at Walhalla High, the front window of the post office has been turned into a winter wonderland.  It rarely snows in these parts at Christmas.  But the art students have painted a […]

Public safety responders had their hands full on Friday afternoon on U-S 123, the Seneca-Clemson Boulevard.  An accident at Jacobs Road, followed by a rear-end collision at the Food Lion traffic lights clogged traffic in rain on a Friday afternoon, one of the busiest traffic volume periods for that section of the highway.

A little more than one week before Christmas is enough time for Oconeeans to adopt a pet in need.  The kennels at the Oconee Humane Society on the Sandifer Boulevard are full with dogs, cats, puppies, and kittens.  To qualified adopters, the adoption fee for most pets has been reduced to $10 dollars.  The $10 fee includes age-appropriate shots, spay-neuter, […]

Walhalla state lawmaker Rep. Bill Whitmire says he’s confident the General Assembly next year will see fit to add more than $200 million to the education budget which, he says, will be enough to give every South Carolina teacher a three thousand dollar pay raise. Whitmire, a retired teacher and member of the Ways and Means Committee, has a big […]

City of Seneca announces that Santa Claus’s planned visit tonight to Norton Thompson Park has been called off–because of the rainy weather.  It means also that no hot chocolate will be served.  Because the forecasts for tomorrow and Sunday nights appear to be clear, Santa’s visit and the hot chocolate are to take place then.

Oconee school officials finished their meeting with the county’s state lawmakers, encouraged that from the new legislative session there could be agreement to allow the public schools to start the next school year on the same date. Earlier this year the Oconee public schools were granted a waiver for their secondary schools to start the 2020-21 year on August 10, […]

This rainy Friday is not the best day for the outdoor tree lighting ceremony for Fair Play.  Instead the tree lighting has been moved inside the Beaverdam Baptist Church Fellowship Hall and will start at 7 o’clock tonight.  The public is invited.