Author: Dick Mangrum

  Two police officers are back for duty in Lavonia, Georgia, having recovered from gunshot wounds two months ago while on duty.  For the time being, it’s light duty work for Jeffrey Martin and Michael Schulman.  On Saturday, Martin and Schulman were presented the Purple Heart for bravery, along with other awards and citations.  The two were wounded December 12 […]

You can still buy tickets for Friday’s “State of Oconee” luncheon featuring Governor Henry McMaster.  Vanessa Penton, executive director of the Oconee Chamber of Commerce, says tickets may be purchased at any chamber office or online at oconeechambers.com.

    Oconee Sheriff’s Office has made strides to lessen the county’s un-ending environmental crime of common littering, but the man in charge says his office and others can do more.  Sheriff Mike Crenshaw commented to 101.7/WGOG NEWS about the center stage that littering took last week when a Seneca area woman spoke to county leaders and presented pictures aimed […]

A big ticket item appears on tonight’s agenda for Oconee County school trustees.  In their work session, trustees are to hear about a taxpayer-supported bond issue that would add $14.5 million to the district’s general obligation debt.  The agenda also calls for the trustees to discuss and take possible action to divest itself of some property.  Under consideration is to […]

Brent Venables, defensive coordinator for the Clemson Tigers, has been engaged to keynote an event to raise money for an Oconee County organization that works to lessen dependence on public assistance.  The organization is Ripple of One whose goal is to transform families, one family at a time, by ending their dependence on government assistance.

An unidentified Oconee deputy was involved in one of two incidents of shots fired early Saturday near Westminster, and that part of the investigation has been turned over to the state police.  Two other individuals, also not yet identified by name, were wounded.  9-1-1 was alerted around 2 am to shots fired into a home on the Brock Road. The […]