Author: Dick Mangrum

Narrow as the medians that are taking shape on Main, their size may be inadequate to handle an oak tree.  A couple of Walhalla’s tree committee members are considered, and President Dan Pollock of Partners for Progress says there will be discussion about this during Partners’ Monday night meeting at the Depot.  Going into the meeting is the idea that […]

In the next two weeks, Oconee County Council will rely on Sheriff Mike Crenshaw to come up with decibel readings at various places across the county.  The council will look to Crenshaw to provide the benchmark data that will allow them to decide how loud is too loud.  As the council decides the limits that should go in the noise […]

An Oconee County road builder gets the job to build the county’s first roundabout of modern times.  To convert Wells Highway where it meets Strawberry Farm and Mormon Church roads near Seneca into a roundabout intersection the contract goes to Thrift Development.  According to Josh Makison, resident construction engineer for the DOT, the state will play Thrift Development $963 thousand […]

Multiple responders are at the scene of an oveturned truck near Seneca.  The accident on 130 at the W. Sizemore Road railroad crossing has detoured 130 traffic on the approach to Seneca.

Heavy rain that soaked downtown Walhalla this morning chased away Streetscape workers, who are on the job today to pour a new curb on the north side of Main Street.  Once those concrete workers are able to return to work, the trucks and other equipment are going to make for more congestion.  Motorists and pedestrians should be careful.  

A teacher at Seneca’s Northside Elementary School, Laura Land, spent part of her summer attending the Science P.L.U.S. Institute, a facility of the Greenville County schools.  In their goal to become a top 10 district, Oconee public schools have identified instruction initiatives—one of which is an increased emphasis on science, technology, engineering and mathematics.  Teachers, such as Land, attended workshops […]

On Labor Day, the day set aside for special recognition to the workforce, a 34-year old Oconee County man found himself jailed on the charge of receiving stolen goods.  According to an announcement by the Oconee Sheriff’s Office, William Justin Holliday of the Dr. John’s Road, Westminster is accused of having in his possession a Hustler Raptor 52” Zero Turn […]

The project that Seneca pulled off last year to convert its passenger buses to all-electric power will be formally recognized during a luncheon Friday at the city’s bus terminal—the Seneca Rail Site.  There, representatives of the state Department of Health and Environmental Control will present Seneca a “Spare the Air” award.  Ed Halbig, Seneca’s director of planning and community development, […]