Author: Dick Mangrum

A spokeswoman for Oconee public schools this afternoon released this statement:  “There was a minor traffic accident this morning involving a SDOC school bus. While on a morning route, the bus was rear-ended at the intersection of Pine and Broad Streets in Walhalla. There were no injuries to the bus driver or to the one student who was on the […]

Thru a social media sharing platform, Walhallans are being afforded a new way to communicate with their city police department about crime and suspicious activity. Police Chief Sean Brinson says Neighbors App by Ring will go live in Walhalla tomorrow. It’s a way for Walhallans to get real-time local crime and safety updates directly from their smartphones. Text ‘JOINTODAY’ to […]

At this hour, the state patrol is described “deep into investigation” of an accident that occurred this morning near a curve on a rural Oconee County road. A total of four people, including three youngsters, are reported to have been sent to two different hospitals with what the patrol spokesman called non-life threatening injuries. The accident involved a car and […]

A high-speed chase on I-85 yesterday afternoon passed thru Oconee County and resulted in an arrest in Anderson County. Georgia’s WLHR Lavonia reports the chase started about 2pm near a weigh station when Franklin County deputies tried to stop a black Acura for speeding northbound. As deputies approached, the Acura put it into high-gear reaching 90mph by the time it […]

An ambulance was at the scene of an accident at the 9 o’clock hour this morning at a rural Oconee County location.  The highway patrol reported the accident at Mountain Road and Plant Road–between SC 11 and 183/the Walhalla-Westminster Highway.  Information received by 101.7/WGOG NEWS indicates the accident involved a car and a pick-up type vehicle.

Over recent years, Westminster has shouldered its fair share of problems—the solutions for which seem hard to find. But the Westminster representative to the Oconee County Council made clear last night he supports the city and can see a future for better times ahead for the city. Julian Davis, the county council chairman, addressed the mayor and council during last […]

City of Seneca elected leaders removed from their agenda a pair of legal matters that they intended to address in a closed-door meeting last night, at the end of their regular October meeting. City administrator Scott Moulder announced that Bo Bowman, the city attorney, was tied up yesterday in depositions and would not be present to advise the mayor and […]

The city administrator for Westminster says he’ll need another month or so to better gauge the effect on revenue lost from the end of the wholesale water contract with the Pioneer Rural Water District. Chris Carter, city administrator, showed the mayor and council last night the numbers on water usage and revenues since its large wholesale customer went into the […]

If the real Big Foot actually makes an appearance this month in Westminster, his every movement will be recorded by a camera in the air. The city council last night gave its blessing to a Walhalla man’s plans to fly a drone over the two-day festival that’ll pay homage to a mythical creature. Dale Glymph, festival organizer, introduced drone operator […]

Final touches are being placed on a master plan for a Seneca streetscape and road improvements. And that plan is now expected to reach the hands of the mayor and council during their work session at the end of the month. Scott Moulder says an outside company was tasked with coming up a plan for a streetscape from the EN […]