Author: Dick Mangrum

The coroner’s autopsies found smoke inhalation to be the cause for three deaths at two separate fire scenes Sunday night in Oconee County.  Coroner Addis has classified the deaths of Mark Anthony Land near Seneca and Alfonso Contreras and “Charlie” Lee Brooks near Walhalla as accidental.  Addis says dental records positively identified Brooks and Contreras.  

This month’s announcement by NASA of the discovery of seven Earth-size exoplanets was “one of the most interesting announcements in a long, long time,” said Clemson University philosophy professor Kelly Smith, who consults with NASA and the European Space Agency about ethical and societal issues related to space exploration. The exoplanets, orbiting a cool dwarf star known as TRAPPIST-1, are about 40 light years away […]

City Hall has announced the cancellation tonight of the February work session of the Seneca mayor and council.

According to one Walhalla public safety responder, it’s believed a driver’s foot was applied too heavily to the gas pedal and the result last evening was a car hitting a Latino food store. The accident was logged in shortly before 7 o’clock on College Street, between Main and S. Broad.  No injuries reported, nor was there much damage reported.

Expect President Donald Trump to talk tonight about the nation’s health care insurance law and to show frustration over the inability so far to kill or change it.  Obamacare generated a question last night by one of the members of the board that decides policy for the grounds of Oconee Memorial Hospital.  Hunter Kome, president of the OMC campus, responded, […]

  The financial numbers racked up by the Oconee Medical Campus of the Greenville Hospital System were impacted by a region wide switch last year to a medical record computer system called Epic.  And from what OMC’s Hunter Kome told the hospital’s Holdings Board last night the change was epic for both the hospital and the hospital physician-owned practices where […]

Starting today representatives of a company that specializes in studying the need to expand hospital emergency services will visit Oconee Memorial Hospital in a fact-finding venture.  Hunter Kome, president of the Oconee Medical Campus of GHS, announced last night that the company will make several visits to the Oconee hospital as it conducts a feasibility student.  That study is important, […]

Walhalla has announced a special meeting for the city’s elected leaders.  It will take place at 7 Wednesday night.  According to the announcement, the plan is to hold an executive session for a personnel matter—not specified in the meeting announcement.