Author: Dick Mangrum

One of the longest and contentious legal battles in contemporary Oconee County times ended last night with a vote by the Seneca City Council to settle with the Haynes’ family, owners of a large downtown building condemned years ago by the city. The vote settles court fines levied against the late Rev. Efford Haynes, family patriarch, and allows Seneca to […]

The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control announces that one person in Pickens County has been referred for medical attention after coming in contact with a fox that tested positive for rabies. According to a release from SCDHEC, the victim was attacked by a fox in Pickens Wednesday, July 23. The fox was submitted to DHEC’s laboratory for […]

Walhallans are still wondering what happened to the driver and a car that sped thru the downtown one day late last week.  Police Chief Sean Brinson says the suspect car was a black Dodge Charger with a North Carolina license plate.  At 4 o’clock Thursday afternoon, the car passed Main Street intersections at speeds, witnesses estimate, that reached 100 miles […]

It has been days since the last official rain measurement in Walhalla, the County Seat of Oconee.  But, at least some things in the Walhalla area remain green.  Not so much in southern Oconee, the heartland for county agriculture. One farmer tells us he used a posthole digger for a new fence yesterday, but the ground, hard as it was, […]

Westminster’s Brian Ramey is finishing a four-year term as mayor, and he’d like one more.  Today Ramey makes official that in the city’s November 5 election, he’ll seek a second four-year term.  How he views the last four years, as well as his hopes for the next four he discusses in a 101.7/WGOG NEWS interview airing today.

The highest peaks of the Appalachian Mountains are home to many animal species found nowhere else on Earth. These species include many tiny arthropods, such as insects, millipedes and their relatives living in leaf litter of forests located in high elevations on the mountains. Research in these mountain communities has revealed many new species in recent years, but the full […]

The superintendent for public schools in Pickens County, Danny Merck, will lend a hand tomorrow to a project organized by the Riley Institute at Furman University.  Merck is part of a group of Riley Fellows who will unveil a new food truck for its first service of meals to Greenville County students.  The truck will serve free, nutritiously balanced summer […]

The mayor and council in Seneca go back to work tonight on a short-term rental ordinance that awaits second and final reading.  The ordinance is up for consideration during a work session that starts at 6 o’clock this evening at City Hall.  That work session will be followed by a special council meeting planned for executive session.  The closed-door agenda […]