Author: Dick Mangrum

Early yesterday fire burned a vacant mobile home west of Walhalla.  Chief Brandon Burton of the Walhalla Fire Department said the call to Willow Lane came at 1:30 in the morning.  Burton’s department, along with the Oconee Sheriff’s Office, is investigating the case.

Chief Sean Brinson of the Walhalla police confirms his department is in an “active investigation” today of an assault reported at the Standepointe Vista apartments on N. Catherine Street.  “Not any more details at this point to report, though,” Brinson told us.

Gas prices continued to climb overnight for the fourth straight day following facility shutdowns from attacks in Saudi Arabia this past weekend. North Carolina’s $2.45 average is up one cent overnight and 10 cents on the week. South Carolina’s $2.36 average is up one cent overnight and 13 cents on the week. The timeline for Saudi Arabian facilities to resume […]

This announcement this morning from the Sheriff’s Office:  “Oconee County Sheriff’s Office Investigating Social Media Post The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a social media posting as possible threat. The threat was not directly against Oconee Christian Academy, the initial reporter, or any other Oconee County Schools. Oconee Christian Academy is currently operating under a “Code Yellow”, which means […]

Seneca has plenty of churches.  But in Oconee’s largest city one of the churches is called the ONE Church.  The ONE Church religious activities are in a large building on EN 1st Street downtown.  Temporarily, however, services are being moved to Seneca High School until a contractor completes a 6,400 square foot renovation.  The marching orders for JDavis Construction  are […]

Small vehicles–a pickup and a car–collided shortly before 4 yesterday afternoon in front of the Seneca Burger King.  One vehicle turned over and, according to fire department personnel, two people were sent to the hospital across the highway.

An official 57-degree low temperature in Walhalla prompts our weather watcher to say, “Fall is trying to sneak in, but I don’t know if it is going to get here.”  Actually, the calendar calls for the official start of autumn to be Monday, but we’ll see.

After countless meetings and words exchanged it may be, after all these years, hard to imagine that Oconee County will lay sewer pipe as far south as its I-85 corridor. But now, at least two Oconee County councilmen, have seen surveyors in action. District Five’s Glenn Hart says the surveyors hired by the Joint Regional Sewer Authority have been working […]

Earlier acrimony was put aside, and City Hall action last night clears a regulatory hurdle to allow for 12 new Walhalla homes. The city planning commission’s 4-0 vote calls for general residential zoning for two and a half acres on Tyre B. Mauldin Street. That’s where developers want to build their Chestnut home development. The vote goes in the form […]