Author: Dick Mangrum

A vote by the Oconee County Council next week could send the county back into the business of paving roads.  The council agenda for Tuesday night contains a recommendation that the county award the job of road paving to Hubbard Paving and Grading of Walhalla, in the amount of $1.6 million dollars.  A recommended 10% contingency amount could increase the […]

South Carolina government agencies are getting behind a campaign to reduce the number one item thrown away in the state: wasted food. One out of six people struggle with hunger in the United States, yet food waste is the largest component being sent to landfills and accounted for 21 percent (35.2 million tons) of the nation’s waste in 2013. South […]

Anderson resident Susan Aiken is packing her bags for Cleveland, Ohio for next week’s Republican National Convention  As a delegate from South Carolina’s 3rd Congressional District Aiken, like delegates from across the district, is committed to voting for Donald Trump to gain the GOP nomination for President—and that’s despite the fact that Marco Rubio was her first choice.  But she […]

The life of a Clemson University landmark may soon come to an end.  A committee report calling for the demolition of the Clemson House, which sits on a perch above the main campus, is on the agenda of this morning’s meeting of the university board of trustees.  If the Clemson House is demolished, the demolition will be another change in […]

Rescuers came to the aid of a worker who apparently encountered a medical problem at the bottom of a pit this morning at the Oconee wastewater treatment plant at Seneca. The man, identified to 101.7/WGOG NEWS as a contract employee, was doing some cleaning at the bottom of the pit.  He was taken for medical treatment.  Police, fire, and other […]

Georgia Governor Nathan Deal and South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley jointly announced a state partnership for an estimated $75 million project to replace the existing Interstate 20 bridges over the Savannah River and the Augusta Canal, and to widen a portion of I-20. Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) Commissioner Russell R. McMurry and South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT) Secretary […]

  Two artists are being recognized by Seneca for the murals they will affix to the wall in the atrium of the city’s re-built water plant at Normandy Shores.  The city decided that the long wall in the atrium of the new building needs to depict the local education and history.  So, the idea of a contest was born.  At […]

The agenda for next week’s meeting of Oconee County Council calls for a private session for the county to talk about the potential economic development project code-named “Project Laser.”  The office of the Oconee Alliance recently said this about Project Laser:  “Existing Oconee firm looking at placing a new business line at either one of these locations—Oconee, Arkansas, Texas or […]