Author: Dick Mangrum

Thursday, June 6 will make 80 years since the Second World War turned when the Allies landed on the Normandy Coast.  And Clemson University is remembering a man whose love for the university lasted a lifetime and achieved a first at Normandy.  Wright Bryan distinguished himself as a journalist and broadcast “the first hour” of the invasion.  Bryan graduated from […]

To happen this morning:  around 10 o’clock crews intend to unearth unused fuel tanks from the grounds at the former Fair Play public school.  This, to help allow the Fair-Oak Youth Center to develop the property for community recreation — such as a parking lot for the baseball field and create space for support facilities.

The dog kennels at the Oconee Animal Shelter are full, but what is needed are people willing to adopt a pet.  One available pet is a 10-month-old lab-mx named Venus who, according to the Humane Society, has perhaps “the most fabulous ears in Oconee County.”

This week, A surprise visitor to the Seneca City Council meeting chambers:  Ed Halbig.  He was there as an audience member only, while on a return visit to Seneca. Halbig left his City of Seneca job for a move across the country and a new job at the New Mexico Department of Transportation. Although now working in Sante Fe, Halbig […]

A Memorial Day shoplifting incident at the Seneca Wal-mart sent Oconee sheriff’s officers on a chase of the suspect’s car, a pursuit that eventually made its way into Walhalla and ended when the driver gave up and surrendered at the dead end of Bulwinkle Drive.  Multiple charges have been filed against Greenville resident Leon Brooks Jr.  According to the sheriff’s […]

A property crime investigation in the Richland Community of Oconee County led the sheriff’s office to arrest a 45-year-old Piedmont, South Carolina man on multiple charges.  The sheriff’s office describes the charges against Jason Heath Berry as receiving stolen goods and trafficking in methamphetamine.  The investigation of what happened to a stolen dump trailer sent officers to Richland Creek Drive […]

Defendant parties in an attempt to stop the HUB residential-commercial project in Clemson are asking Pickens Commons Pleas Court to throw out the legal challenge brought for Kimberly Parnell and Lakeview apartments.  The plaintiffs seek an injunction.  But lawyers for the city of Clemson, CS Acquisition Company, and Keowee Trail LLC make the following argument to the court:  “Because Plaintiffs’ […]

Five high school students shared in this year’s scholarship money, made possible by the Dorothy M. Friend Scholarships.  Friend was a co-founder of WGOG.  Her estate makes possible the following $1 thousand scholarships for James Robert, Claire Mattox, Wright McCall, Emma Price, and Sophie Smith.  According to the high school, the scholarships go to Oconee students planning to attend a […]

City of Walhalla is notifying customers affected by a water line break on the Lake Jemiki Road.  It’s going to be possibly by the end of the day before crews finish repairs.  Affected are Lake Jemiki Road customers, as well as those on highway 28 west of Rocky Knoll Road, the Zion Road, and Playground Road to the end of […]

Announcement by a Seneca official that the 123 ByPass is in store for an urgent care facility.  The mayor and council were told last night that such a medical facility has been permitted to go into the former BB&T bank at 975 Bypass 123.  It’s believed the facility will be created by Alabama-based American Family Care, which claims to have […]