Author: Dick Mangrum

Despite drought conditions, expectations are likely that this year’s fall foliage season will be good and, in some locations, potentially spectacular.  Where there is drought the leaves likely will turn brown and fall prematurely, but Clemson University thinks the quality of color might actually benefit from the relative lack of rain.  Donald Hagan, forest ecologist, says, “A little bit of […]

South Carolina DHEC has given Walhalla an additional 16 months to build its new water treatment plant at Lake Keowee.  David Underwood, chairman of city council’s utilities committee, last night announced a new completion date of August 31, 2019.  Part of the problem, Mayor Danny Edwards said, is the lack of funding for what’s to be a multi-million dollar price […]

  The attendance by two Oconee County officials at last night’s Walhalla City Council meeting is a sign that the city is getting downtown re-development help thru a new arrangement with the county.  The county is now sharing the services of a planner with both Walhalla and Westminster. In the Walhalla audience were Josh Stephens, deputy director of community development, […]

The difference of one vote on Oconee County Council doomed the passage last night of a $16 million dollar bond issue.  The issue would have generated money to prepare a site to build a Tri-County Tech campus in Oconee County.  After a long discussion of the tax millage needed, voting against the bond issue were Cain, Cammick, and McCall.  The […]

Monday saw the start of the long anticipated demolition of the train trestle/bridge on SC 133 in Clemson, and the city of Clemson alerts motorists to expect DOT lane closures in the vicinity of SC 133 and U-S 123 until the demolition is completed. SCDOT has advised Clemson City Police that having someone to direct traffic would only serve to […]

An autopsy disclosed that Steven Moore died of a stroke, and the coroner has ruled the death of the 52-year old Walhallan as natural.  Coroner Karl Addis says it’s presumed Moore died Friday, September 16  The funeral will be 2 pm Friday, September 23 at Davenport Funeral Home; burial to follow in Long Creek Memorial Cemetery.  The family receives friends […]

A public education forum to unite and inform the Clemson student body and the city community takes place 4 o’clock Sunday afternoon in Tillman Auditorium.  This forum was arranged after graduate student Rashard Hall heard about another police shooting, decided he was ready for change, and ready to find a way to that change.  The event aims to ensure that […]