Author: Dick Mangrum

Cutting the budget and slow to act on a step salary plan may give the impression that three members of Oconee County Council are determined to run-off county workers, but that’s not the case, according to a councilman who addressed financial matters during today’s special council meeting.  Don Mize, a first-term District Three councilman, said he has asked County Administrator […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is announcing today an additional arrest in the first drug round-up of 2023. The Sheriff’s Office began the operation with a meeting and briefing at 8:30am, on Tuesday, February 7th, at the Law Enforcement Center in Walhalla. The Sheriff’s Office obtained arrest warrants on 22 subjects. The arrest warrants were obtained based on controlled purchases […]

At their work session next week, Seneca City Council will be asked to consider whether to make a study of the possibility of charging a fee to ride its passenger buses.  Federal funds have allowed Seneca to run its “CAT” buses fare-free ever since the service started years ago.  The council meets for a work session/special meeting at 6 Tuesday […]

Power has been restored to the sections of downtown Seneca that went without this morning.  Bob Faires, utilities superintendent, blames a squirrel scampering onto a transformer which blew a fuse.

Power has been interrupted in parts of downtown Seneca.  Affected is the northside block of Ramcat Alley, along with other areas such as parts of N. 1st Street.  The outage on one side of Ramcat has taken off air 94.1 The Lake WSNW.

Oconee County Councilman John Elliott, after a trip to the supermarket and learning what he had to pay, leads him to believe the economy is in a period of “hyper inflation”.  One definition of hyperinflation  is a high and accelerating inflation that erodes the real value of the local currency, as the prices of all goods increase.  According to ABC […]

At their special meeting today, Oconee County Council is to discuss grant and performance agreements benefitting a battery maker for electric vehicles.  Project EV Pack-Oconee involves a German company, Akasol, recently acquired by the Borg Warner Company.

A 20-year old man learned his fate yesterday in the Oconee court of General Sessions.  Joseph Jason Bertich was told by the judge that he is sentenced to 10 years in prison for attempted murder.  Bertich entered a guilty plea.  After hearing that Bertich broke two separate knives while stabbing a person with whom he had no real relationship, Judge […]

The former probate judge, Kenny Johns, is considering a run this fall for mayor of Walhalla.  Johns admits that the planned exodus of the longtime mayor, Danny Edwards, has him contemplating seeking the mayor’s office.  Earlier in his life, when he was 30 years old, Johns served as mayor, following a stint on the city council.  A second Walhallan whose […]