Author: Dick Mangrum

Three Salem area residents remained in jail yesterday, charged with ill treatment of animals.  Oconee Sheriff’s Office employed its “SWAT” team to the Little River Road home on Monday after one of the three allegedly produced a firearm and barricaded himself inside.  James Thaddeus Gaskill Jr is charged with seven counts of ill treatment while Ann Hill and William Andrew […]

A spokeswoman for Borg Warner, Michelle Collins, says an investigation will try to determine what caused yesterday’s fire in lithium batteries on the assembly line.  Seneca Fire Chief Richie Caudill said it was a difficult fire to extinguish considering fire retardant materials, other than water, were required, followed by ventilating the large Wells Highway building.  Plant employees were evacuated.  They […]

The fire has been stopped, but it was a difficult firefighting process as lithium batteries caught fire on an assembly line at the Seneca Borg Warner plant.  Plant workers were evacuated and told to take the rest of the day off, according to Chief Caudill of the Seneca Fire Department. A small injury reported to one fire fighter. Once the […]

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 […]