Author: Dick Mangrum

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 […]

At approximately 11:50 this morning, it’s a regular three-minute test of the sirens that are positioned to warn of an emergency at the Oconee Nuclear Plant.  It is to be a test only, to ensure the sirens work properly.  Hearing a siren does not mean to evacuate.  In an emergency, sirens are sounded as a signal to tune to a […]

Plans detailing Pioneer Rural Water District’s treatment plant project are displayed on a table inside the conference room at district headquarters in Oakway.  The retail water supplier for parts of Oconee and Anderson counties is within weeks of knowing which contractors are interested in building their 2.5 MGD treatment plant at Oconee County’s Golden Corner Commerce Park on highway 59.  […]

State troopers categorize late yesterday afternoon’s accident near Clemson as a two-car accident whose impact involved two other cars.  Two people were reported injured in the 5 o’clock hour accident at U-S 123 and 93 near the Hartwell Village project, and one person was believed to have been sent by ambulance to a Greenville hospital.  The accident temporarily blocked part […]

Seneca leaders have agreed to meet with church representatives to discuss ways that members of the community can interact with police officers.  The request for the meeting came last night from the Rev. W-C Honeycutt, representing the Seneca River Baptist Association, a group of more than one dozen area churches.  Honeycutt said he and his organization want to be pro-active […]