Author: Dick Mangrum

The importance of arts education was stressed last night to the Oconee school trustees.  The speaker was Fred Edgerton, last year’s district teacher of the year and long-time art teacher at Seneca High.  There’s worry on the part of art and music teachers that the subjects may be cut out or reduced in the elementary grades, as the district moves […]

Walhalla has one.  Now Clemson University undergraduates and faculty wanting to accelerate their business ideas from a vision to reality have access to a business incubator in downtown Clemson. The Clemson Venture Accelerator has opened its doors at 107 Sloan St. College of Business leaders say the space will cater to entrepreneurs from all educational disciplines and provide space dedicated to research, planning and […]

There are problems this morning with West Union’s one and only sanitation truck.  And it means that those customers who normally would see their garbage picked up today may have to wait until tomorrow, according to Mayor Linda Oliver.

Seneca’s Luke Bleuel (left) is one of the youngest and smallest members of the Carolina Youth Symphony Repertory Orchestra.  The sixth grader at Seneca Middle School competed against eighth and ninth grade orchestra students.  The Carolina Youth Symphony gives performances at various Greenville area venues and draws members from the upstate and parts of North Carolina.  Luke is a violin […]

The crack of thunder around 7 last night led to a downpour which, in Walhalla, measured nearly 1.25″.  This morning’s report from Barbara Wilson, weather observer, also shows that yesterday’s high temperature failed to reach 90 degrees.  It goes into the books at 88.

Four roads inside the Walhalla water service district are to be re-paved by Oconee County.  According to Mack Kelly, county engineer and Walhalla officials, the four roads to be worked are Misty, Hillside, Springdale, and Meadowbrook.  As part of the work, it will be necessary for Walhalla to re-position existing water lines.  

The new Seneca Improvements Corporation and the transfer from Generation Savings to the corporation are agenda items at tonight’s meeting of the Seneca City Council.  The meeting takes place at 6 at City Hall.  

The public may speak out on whether the U-S Forest Service should allow an extension of Palmetto Trail to cross forest land in Oconee County.  The meetings during the last week of the month are designed to resolve issues with the project to extend the trail from its current end at the Oconee State Park to downtown Walhalla.  In the […]