Author: Dick Mangrum

In front of Oconee’s policymakers for sewer today is a proposition to allow the executive director to negotiate a deal with Weston & Sampson engineers to do a “Central Oconee County Sewer Master Plan” using the same methodology as the Fair Play Area Sewer Basin Plan.  The end game apparently is to remove politics and replace them with what’s called […]

An I-85 accident at 2 o’clock Saturday morning in Anderson County took the lives of two people from Greenville County.  Brent Simpson, deputy coroner, identified the dead as Tracina Yvette Young, 47-year-old Greenville resident, and Frederick Leorande Styles, 51-year-old Woodruff resident.  According to the coroner’s office, a tractor trailer, driven by Young, was northbound headed back to Greenville with a […]

101.7/WGOG NEWS has learned of an incident this afternoon on Lake Keowee near Salem.  At Fall Creek Landing #2, a source tells us, a child has been hurt by a boat propeller.  A medical helicopter transport is being arranged at this hour (3 pm.)

A former pastry chef has had a connection with the Utica community for 20 years — back to the time when a stake was driven into the heart of that area with the closing of a 100-year old textile manufacturing plant.  Mary Beth Van Pelt quickly detected the problem of some pet dogs who, for whatever reasons, found themselves neglected […]

First day attendance across the Oconee School District was 9,691.  There were, according to Steve Hanvey, the associate superintendent, 510 students counted as absent.  Together those numbers indicate a total enrollment 10,161.  About those opening day absentees, Hanvey said, “That includes students who have moved, but we don’t have requests for their info or withdrawal forms.”  He says Monday’s numbers […]

Late last month the board of Oconee’s Library trustees adopted a strategic plan that sets in motion a framework for the system through the year 2025.  Preceding the adoption was a public comment period featuring a 12-question survey.  Interviewed yesterday Blair Hinson, director of the libraries, predicted that some improvements are likely to be in the offing to the Seneca […]

A resolution to combat child trafficking in South Carolina was approved yesterday during the Mountain Rest Republican Precinct’s monthly meeting at the Mountain Rest Community Center.  Doug Hedden, Matthew Durham, and Tate Rochester are among Mountain Rest Republicans speaking out against a crime that victimizes vulnerable members of society, and Rochester plans to present the resolution to the executive committee […]