Author: Dick Mangrum

For cool temps and amazing sights, Visit Oconee recommends five waterfalls. Topping the list:  Brasstown, followed by Station Cove, Chau Ram, Pigpen/Licking Falls, and Issaqueena.

Oconee Chamber of Commerce announces no more tickets are available to see and hear Tom Barkin when the president/CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond speaks this month to a community breakfast.  Barkin will address what figures to be a capacity-only crowd November 14 in the community room of the Oconee headquarters of Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative and will […]

The three reservoirs on the upper Savannah River Basin have declared their second flow reduction in two months.  This, in response to the pool elevation at Lake Thurmond on Sunday dipping below Drought Trigger Level #2.  Water managers also adjusted Lake Hartwell releases to balance with Thurmond.  According to the U-S Army Corps of Engineers, reducing outflow decreases hydropower generated […]

Today is a day set aside to recognize nearly 8,000 workers who operate and maintain 110 power plant facilities in the field of nuclear and regulated and renewable energy.  It’s the Third Annual Power Plant Worker Appreciation Day. And we spoke with Duke Energy’s Chris Rickman, director of plant maintenance at the Oconee Nuclear Station.  That interview is being aired […]

The project to lay sewer pipe to I-85 in Oconee is estimated to be 33% complete, according to Chris Eleazer.  The head of the Joint Regional Sewer Authority says most of the force main pipe on the south side of the interstate between exits 1 and 2 has been installed with 10″ pipe bored below the surface of Lake Hartwell […]

Thomas Alexander of Walhalla, the State Senate president, took the opportunity yesterday to meet a young Anderson man embarking on a career somewhere in the professional world.  And for Alexander, the Oconee-Pickens senator, the meeting served for him to help mentor or coach a young person who shows promise of, perhaps, someday becoming a leader in his field.  Another way […]

Signs have been sent to Oconee County DSS and all other county DSS offices in South Carolina signifying that the state DSS is now a certified sensory inclusiveness agency, through training provided by a national non-profit drawing attention to invisible conditions.  DSS pros are now able to better help South Carolinians through training and hands-on aids to reduce anxiety while […]

A total of 32 votes added to the running count of Oconee’s municipal electorate who are taking advantage of Early Voting opportunities — ahead of next week’s town and city elections countywide.  As it has been the case, all of the action is centered in Seneca and Walhalla.  County Elections took in 14 Seneca votes yesterday; 18 from Walhalla.  Voters […]

Soccer nets now take up Kapp Field where they used to play youth baseball.  Something new is on the way there:  a PetSafe dog park.  Scott Moulder, city administrator, says along Quincy Road the city is building a dog park there, with an entrance patio. Kapp Field is now officially inside the Bennie Cunningham Jr. Park.  Cunningham of both college […]