Author: Dick Mangrum

Tim Scott, South Carolina Republican, is a co-sponsor of “Protect Our Bases Act” — a bill that ensures a legislative committee may review foreign land purchases near sensitive military, intelligence, and national laboratory sites by requiring agencies to update and review their locations.  Scott, ranking member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, says, “The Chinese Communist […]

A pothole-plagued county road in the Boone’s Creek Community near Salem is getting attention.  Kyle Reid, director of the county roads and bridges department, says crews were at work yesterday filling potholes on the Ramey Road near the Boone’s Creek Road.

The pantry at Walhalla’s St. Luke Methodist Church includes packaged foods, frozen meat, along with local apples.  This is a free food day at the E. Main Street church this afternoon from 4:30 to 5:30.

Serious discussion is the way the boss of Seneca utilities describes the challenge to satisfy developers of a new and proposed mixed-use development west of the city.  But the new owner of 148 acres held only recently by a South Carolina children’s home is thinking in terms of a combination commercial and residential development off the Sandifer Boulevard.   Bob Faires, […]

Kyle Thomas will be able to share his thoughts on the economy and banking conditions with a regional council of the federal government.  The Blue Ridge Bank president/CEO has been selected for a three-year term on the Community Depository Institutions Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.  In that connection, Thomas announces an upcoming November 14 visit to […]

A five-hour manhunt ended last night at Toccoa, Georgia with the arrest of a 26-year old man accused of firing a weapon at a resident on Christine Circle, a incident law enforcement described as an altercation between residents.  The Stephens County sheriff, Randy Shirley, said bullets struck a patrol vehicle, but no one was hurt in the entire ordeal. However, […]

A reminder today from Oconee Elections that Walhalla’s two voting precincts have permanently been moved from the Rescue/EMS building on S. Church Street to the American Legion Post 124 hut at 319 Kenneth Street, next door to the office of county Veterans Affairs.  According to Ryan Nowland, a major benefit of the move is that voting in Precincts 1 and […]

A Clemson University podcast explores why, in the Upstate, Oconee and Greenville counties experience high rates of radon, a health hazard that seeps up from the earth.  Just who’s most vulnerable is being explained today on 101.7/WGOG NEWS.

Matthew Durham wishes to make it a second, four-year term.  The Mountain Rest Republican and council chairman has declared his intention to seek his party’s nomination to run next year for re-election.  Durham embraces the term “staunch Conservative” and the principles of private property rights, sound fiscal management, strategic budgeting, and public safety.

One candidate posed the question of whether Walhalla wants to be known as an “alcohol city”.  Another called for Walhalla to address the plight of its low income residents, especially those who rent apartments.  Walhalla’s image, its homeless problem, the benefits of tourism and recreation, and infrastructure problems were among the issues that city council candidates took on last night […]