Author: Dick Mangrum

The Walhalla Fire Department on N. Broad Street is a drop-off center for items that’ll help the crews of fire fighters who continue to try to bring the Pickens County Pinnacle Mountain fire under control.  Items that are especially helpful would be donations of batteries, water, snacks and other food items.  Simply drop them off at the Walhalla Fire Department.

A second man has been arrested in the investigation of an October home burglary on the Jocassee Lake Road.  According to the Oconee Sheriff’s Office, the arrest of Ryan Curtis Tolbert of Greenville came as a result of the investigation that also produced the arrest of Thomasville, NC resident Richard Clayton Bagwell II in the same case after a vehicle […]

A building boom in Clemson appears to be corresponding with increasing traffic back ups in the university town.  At the request of 101.7/WGOG NEWS, the director of university planning, Gerald Vander Mey, addressed what’s ahead for two artery roads and rumors associated with them.  Highway 93—the Walter Cox Boulevard—is one of several state roads that are now being managed by […]

  In spite of his social media critics, the Westminster mayor is pleased by accomplishments by both him and the new look city council in their first year in office.  And Brian Ramey describes his resolve as strong in the face of critics who want him and most of the rest of the council removed.  A Facebook petition, posted in […]

Trial is scheduled to open this morning in the Oconee General Sessions Court in the state’s case against Robbie Franklin James.  Arrested in the summer of 2014, James is accused of pointing/presenting a firearm.

  A change in the wind during the night apparently gave Oconee clearer visibility and fewer odors this morning from the continuous wildfires in three states.  Scott Krein of Oconee Emergency Services is far from overly pleased because, as he put it, the wind change simply means that visibility and smell are problems for other areas.  For Krein and other […]

Residents of South Carolina should be aware of possible health effects related to smoke from wildfires in North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and South Carolina, the Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) reported today. Depending on wind conditions, multiple areas could be affected. Monitors are indicating elevated levels of particulate matter in several areas of the state. Currently, the upstate […]

        Steep terrain and no real expectation of a good rain any time soon are factors that are liable to keep fire fighters on the job on Pickens County’s Pinnacle Mountain.  Russell Hubright of the South Carolina Commission of Forestry says fire fighters anticipate finishing fire lines to the east side of the fire—practically all the way […]