Author: Dick Mangrum

Lucia Gonzales, associate director of research for the Clemson School of Nursing, is working with nurses from Prisma Health to revamp the process of discharging patients so they can go home or move to a rehabilitation center earlier in the day.  Most hospital discharges happen in the afternoon or late evenings, making it a challenge for patients to get home […]

A city of Seneca official says the fire this morning at the Borg Warner plant has been extinguished.  While the incident was in progress, an evacuation of employees from the building was ordered.  101.7/WGOG NEWS has left a call back message with a spokeswoman for the company.

The Walhalla branch of the Oconee Public Library will play host this month to a public meeting to impart information on what’s being done in Oconee County to combat the opioid crisis.  The public is invited to hear Dr. Aaron Zeller at 4:30 pm Thursday, August 29 at the Walhalla Library Branch.  Zeller chairs a task force which has access […]

At the 8 o’clock hour, fire trucks were seen headed to Seneca’s Borg Warner plant on the Wells Highway.  Employees have been seen milling around the outside of the building — indicative that officials ordered an evacuation.

A bid for an injunction against the Clemson HUB residential-commercial project has been ended in the Pickens Common Pleas Court.  A court document July 25 shows a dismissal with prejudice was agreed to by plaintiffs Kimberly Parnell and Lakeview Apartments and defendants city of Clemson, CS Acquisition LLC, and Keowee Trail LLC.  Under a stipulation of dismissal with prejudice, the […]

Living just 20 minutes from the Clemson campus, Andrew Brown’s first choice for college was never in doubt.  And today, after only two full calendar years, he’s to receive his bachelor’s degree in biological sciences.  Brown took summer classes and carried a load of between 16 and 20 credits each semester.  He’s leaning toward a career in pathology.  During his […]

About 1,000 students are set to earn bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees today from Clemson University.  Doctoral commencement takes place at 3 o’clock in the Brooks Center.  Graduation ceremony for bachelor’s and master’s degree candidates takes place in Littlejohn at 9 this morning.  Tickets are not required, but graduates are recommended to limit to a maximum of six guests.

An outdoor fire spread yesterday to the siding of a home in the Friendship Community near Seneca.  Walter Lee of the Friendship Volunteer Fire Department said, in all, as many 20 fire fighters were sent to Richardson Drive near the Friendship Valley Road, alerted at first to a report of a burning lawnmower.  The fire spread to a golf cart […]