Author: Dick Mangrum

The manager of Schneider Electric in Oconee, Garvin Barker, will give the featured talk to Thursday’s business forum sponsored by the Oconee Economic Alliance, Barker will speak during the 8 am meeting, planned for conference room at Thrift Development near Seneca. The alliance on Thursday will also highlight the Ride to Work Ministry, as the non-profit group of the month. […]

The 22 members of a mission team from Hartwell, Georgia’s Mt. Olivet Baptist Church are still in Haiti. They were warned again yesterday that, because of continued unrest, to not travel. The team does have flights booked on Friday but hope to be able to return home sooner. They were first to have returned to the U.S Saturday, but civil […]

Brett Kavanaugh for the highest court of the land is someone South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham can and is willing to support. Graham reacted last night to President Trump’s announcement of Kavanaugh as his nominee to succeed the retiring Anthony Kennedy by saying Kavanaugh is the kind of conservative he has been looking for. The confirmation process is likely to be […]

A stove fire late yesterday afternoon at a unit in the Walhalla Gardens apartment complex is a reminder that, even the shortest time of in-attention, can lead to disaster.  Fortunately, yesterday, according to Chief Brandon Burton of the Walhalla Fire Department no one was hurt and there was no fire damage.

Off a major entrance to downtown Seneca, work is underway on a new set of apartment buildings to contain 50 units not far from the city’s Monarch Park off E-N 1st Street. It’s a project undertaken by the private sector. Ed Halbig, director of planning and community development for Seneca, says the project is called Hunter Oak. A dirt road […]

For much of the remaining summer, Pickens County-based King Asphalt workers and equipment will be paving roads in Oconee County. King yesterday announced two projects to start this Sunday and to continue to their completion by the end of September. They are work on U-S 123 in Seneca from highway 28 to Pine Street and from 123 in Westminster, from […]

If a vote tonight is favorable, Seneca will soon have in place economic incentives for new business and property owners willing to share the costs of façade work. High atop city council’s agenda is a recommendation to approve amended ordinances that’ll offer 15% of the costs of façade improvements up to a maximum of $5 thousand in matching funds. The […]

A late Friday night chase by the Seneca police of an SUV ended in the nearby Utica Community with the arrest of the driver and the filing of five criminal charges. Police records this afternoon identify the man arrested in the vicinity of Utica’s Gammell Street as Greenville and Laurens area resident Joseph Edward Kinsel. Twenty-six years old and a […]

The business of death investigations has grown in Oconee County to justify the hiring of the first salaried deputy coroner. And an office worker in the coroner’s office, Jana Morris, went on the job today, as confirmed by her boss, Coroner Karl Addis. Morris, who has worked as an administrative assistant in the office since last year, was the choice […]

A positive development is reported in the project two men are pursuing to turn the old Oconee Courthouse into a 19-room hotel. Tom Markovich released this statement this morning to 101.7/WGOG NEWS: “We are still moving forward with the project. We (he and partner Herb Witter) did recently receive approval for the project from the National Park Service. Our attorney […]