Author: Dick Mangrum

Plans are in the hopper for a new Dollar General store on SC 130/the Rochester Highway, one-half mile north of the Seneca city limits. Adam Chapman, county planner, confirmed the project during an interview today with 101.7/WGOG NEWS. “The developers have submitted an application. We’re just going thru the standard process of getting them building,” Adam Chapman, county planner, said. […]

For a time early yesterday afternoon, eastbound traffic on the 123 Seneca-Pass in front of the Executive Inn had to skirt a large bed mattress that was sitting in the passing lane.  The police got a call, and Capt. B-J McClure said the mattress was moved out of the road to the side of the highway.  “The owner of the […]

Today is National HIV Testing Day, and the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) encourages South Carolinians to get tested for HIV and other STDs. By December 31, 2017, there were nearly 20,000 South Carolina residents living with diagnosed HIV infection (including AIDS). “Early detection through testing for HIV remains essential to successfully identifying and treating the disease […]

U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) released the statement below following yesterday’s bipartisan vote in the U.S. Senate on $4.5 billion in emergency supplemental funding to provide humanitarian aid, including shelter, food and medical care, at the border. The bill passed the Senate by a vote of 84-8. A companion measure has been approved in the House, but the White House […]

Oconee Sheriff’s Office appeals to the public for information to help locate a man suspected of fraud this month at two stores near Seneca. The Sheriff’s Office suspects the man fraudulently used someone else’s credit card to make two purchases June 15 at Verizon Wireless and 21 minutes later at the Wal-Mart. Thru Crimestoppers the Sheriff’s Office promises anonymity to […]

Scott Moulder, the Seneca city administrator, says he has had “positive discussions” with the company that operates a small hydro-electric power plant near the city limits toward a continuing relationship between the two parties. As the only retail customer of the Coneross Power Corporation, Seneca buys a small amount of electricity which it re-sells to the grid as a way […]

A new development of 20 to 23 single family homes is proposed along Walhalla’s Tyre B. Mauldin Street. The project, if approved, would fall between the blocks of S. Poplar and S. Chestnut streets and take in four currently undeveloped lots on 2.5 acres. The city planning commission has announced a hearing next month to consider the property owner’s request […]

The National Transportation Safety Board has published its preliminary investigation report of the small plane crash this month killed two men from Oconee—Raymond Dodd and Dr. Stanley Rampey—at Orlando, Florida: “On June 12, 2019, about 1100 eastern daylight time, a Cessna 182E, N3051Y, was substantially damaged during a forced landing near Maitland, Florida. The private pilot and passenger were fatally […]

Tuesday, August 6 is now the SC DOT’s new date to re-open a closed part of US 123 between Westminster and Georgia.  Delays in re-locating utilities and the blowout of the roadside are being blamed for pushing back the finish of an emergency project to restore the collapsed roadside and put an end to an alternate route for drivers to […]

South Carolinians can help protect water quality in the state by participating in an upcoming survey from Clemson University Cooperative Extension. Carolina Clear, Extension’s stormwater education program, is preparing to launch a telephone survey to gauge knowledge, attitudes and behaviors of South Carolina residents related to its water resources. Each survey should take no more than 15 minutes and Extension […]