Author: Dick Mangrum

Affirming a citation against a couple for a short-term rental violation is under appeal in the Oconee Common Pleas Court.  Lawyers for Leonard and Julie Chace name as defendants the city, the board of appeals, and Ed Halbig, zoning administrator.  The Chaces’ seek an injunction and ruling that Seneca’s ordinance is unconstitutional and on the grounds of vagueness.  They contend […]

Seneca’s 2017 Christmas Parade Monday night shapes up to be one of the largest, in the eight years that Julian Davis has taken charge of setting the lineup.  By early this afternoon 130 units–including entries from 36 churches–had registered.  And Davis says that bodes well for the other parades in the county that will follow.  Many of Seneca’s entries will […]

Independent by petition.  That is the route that an Oconeean has decided will be his best if he’s to make the ballot next year for South Carolina governor.  Fair Play resident and former Oconee director of libraries Phil Cheney today announced he’s going to try to gather at least 10,000 signatures from across the state to qualify him for a […]

One of the more interested members of the audience at yesterday’s Walhalla Rotary meeting to hear the speaker was likely Dr. Michael Thorsland, superintendent of Oconee public schools.  Because Senator Thomas Alexander was talking about the need for the state to spend up to $30 million extra a year for new school buses.  Alexander announced he’s going to support an […]

Tri-County Technical College will be closed Thursday and Friday for the Thanksgiving holidays.  The college re-opens Monday.

Two 8th graders at West-Oak Middle School placed near the top in a local essay contest.  Beau Garrett and Jeremy Dobbs were the second and third place finishers in the Patriot’s Pen contest of the local VFW Auxiliary.  The theme for the essay was “American History:  Our Hope for the Future.”  At the national level, students have the chance to […]

A project to replace equipment at 101.7/WGOG today means there will be no regular noon hour programming.  The local news, the obituary report, and the musical oldies part of the hour will return at normal time tomorrow.

A small fire was reported this morning in the wall of a home near Walhalla.  But, according to Rural Fire Control, that fire apparently was extinguished quickly around 4:45 this morning on Katie Did Holler Lane near SC 28/the Highlands Highway.  Car accidents reported last night in Oconee County.  The worst, perhaps, was 123 eastbound across from Union Station Road, […]

Walhalla and Westminster are running their garbage pickup routes on Wednesday, instead of the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday.