Author: Dick Mangrum

Something new this year at Walhalla High will be a credit course called “Frontier History” for students in social studies. Students who pass are to receive one-half unit of course credit. The Oconee school trustees voted this week to add the course after being told that the instructor will be Kurt Kreuzberger. By teaching the course at Walhalla, the retired […]

Chris Carter, Westminster city administrator, senses opportunity for his city to work toward a combination City Hall-Magistrate complex. It would be a project that both the city and the county would finance. Carter’s presentation last night led the city council to allocate $7,500 for the cost of an architectural study, though not all on council agreed. Susan Ramey and Yousef […]

Westminster skateboard enthusiasts left the city council meeting last night, having made an apparent good impression on the city’s elected leaders. Several of the skateboarders carried their boards into the meeting room to symbolize that the time is finally right for the city to permit a skateboard park inside the corporate limits. They were led by Marcelle Killian whose mother, […]

Walhalla Mayor Danny Edwards can look forward today to a check for $25 thousand, money that is to be applied to the continued development of the new Stumphouse Mountain Bike Park. The money comes from the Upstate Forever Land Trust, and a check presentation ceremony is to take place at 4:30 this afternoon at the trailhead for the Palmetto Trail. […]

The largest remaining Eastern hemlock trees in South Carolina got a dose of tender loving care when Duke Energy funded the treatment of trees along the Whitewater River in Oconee County to help the hemlocks in their battle against the deadly hemlock wooly adelgid. In the past 20 years, the wooly adelgid has decimated hemlocks across the Southern Appalachians. A […]

Senator Lindsey Graham, home on a break from Washington, talked about trade, Iran, and health care during his talk last night to a meeting of party faithful, the Oconee GOP. In a few weeks, Graham plans to offer a bill that would change the flow of health care insurance money from Washington. A new way, he says, to make disbursements […]

Many of you have your own ways to tell when summer winds down. In these parts, some of the signs include cooler mornings, fewer swimmers at the Walhalla Swimming Pool, and the return of the area’s blue-collar Spittoono Festival. Another one is when the calendar turns to the opening of the public schools. In Oconee County this year, the public […]

The Oconee Chamber of Commerce has a new home office. The chamber this week announced the opening of its new location in the Bountyland Community, at 2 Leas Courtyard Drive. This new location is the place for area information. Everyone is invited to stop by the new chamber location or either the other offices in Walhalla and Westminster.