Author: Dick Mangrum

Two members of Oconee County Council spoke to 101.7/WGOG NEWS yesterday about the likelihood that the city of Clemson will annex a small part of the Hartwell Village Shopping Center located in Oconee County adjacent to Lake Hartwell. Both Paul Cain and Edda Cammick expressed their disappointment, but conceded there appears little that can be done to stop the annexation. […]

For one, the Westminster mayor says he is better off having taken two days for a trip this week to the state capital. And Mayor Brian Ramey says he believes the four city council members who went are also now in a better position to govern from the local level. They went for training at the State Municipal Association and […]

The Seneca mayor says he’s aware that, in the last several months, at least five downtown buildings have changed hands. And Dan Alexander says it bodes well for his city to fill up empty storefronts. In an interview, the mayor says he’s aware of a furniture store and other retails stores that are coming to the downtown. He declined to […]

101.7/WGOG NEWS has learned that a pair of old Walhalla Main Street buildings are to be demolished to make way for new businesses. One is the Brown building at Main and S. College; the other is across the street bordered by the corner of N. College. Businessmen Robbie Burrell and Ricky Cook have caught the spirit of a new birth […]

Oconee Republicans turned out in Seneca to give a boost to this year’s campaign of Alan Wilson to be re-elected South Carolina Attorney General. Wilson was first elected in 2010 to head the legal department for the state. Before addressing a crowd at the Seneca Family Restaurant, Wilson told 101.7/WGOG NEWS that he and his staff keep busy handling multiple […]

An Oconee jury yesterday returned not guilty verdicts in the case of Bowdy Crowe-Key, charged with burglary second degree and petty larceny. Crowe-Key was arrested in 2015 as the result of an alleged incident at a trailer building. The one-day trial featured a dogged cross-examination of Sheriff’s Sgt. Phillip Bryant by defense attorney Smith.

The Oconee Sheriff’s Office reports one person in custody after a chase yesterday that started south of Seneca and ended in Anderson County. Shortly after 2 pm a deputy tried to make a traffic stop at SC 59 at Sam Brown Road. Further details may be released today.

When court resumes this afternoon Bowdy Crowe-Key, an Oconee General Sessions defendant, will announce whether he will take the stand in his own defense. The state rested around mid day, having called Sgt. Phillip Bryant of the Sheriff’s Office as its last witness. Judge McIntosh advised Crowe-Key that he has the right to either take the stand or not take […]

Oconee’s outside auditor is highly complimentary of the way county staff tracks and manages its money. David Irwin of the firm Mauldin and Jenkins delivered a clean, unmodified audit opinion covering the government year that ended June 30, 2017. “We don’t have any audit findings to report to you all this year,” he said last night. The certified public auditor, […]

The Walhalla traffic light intersection of S. Broad and College Street/183 is partially flooded.  The low-lying pavement and grass in front of the chamber of commerce building is unable to absorb the water from the pounding rainfall.