Author: Dick Mangrum

A small plane, bound for Greer, made a successful  emergency landing around 10 this morning at the Oconee Regional Airport near Clemson.  Three people were aboard, but all are OK.  Scott Moulder, county administrator, says the Piper Archer pilot reported engine failure six miles out at an altitude of six thousand feet.  All ended well, Moulder says, when the pilot […]

Red Cross disaster-trained volunteers are helping the residents of six units at Seneca’s Crescent Pointe Apartment Homes.  Their apartments on S. Oak Street were damaged yesterday by fire, water, and smoke.  And Red Cross says, should the need arise, it is ready to assist other residents there.  The immediate assistance consists of temporary housing, financial assistance for food and clothes, […]

Westminster leaders are optimistic that a seven dollar charge placed on a retail customer’s electric power bill will eventually lower the customer’s bill.  They are hoping as many customers as possible elect to accept the extra $7 dollars that pays for what’s touted as a “smart meter.”  Mayor Pro-tem Bill Brockington says the theory is that the city’s use of […]

If you are 50 years or older and want to return to the job place, coaching is available to you during a meeting this morning at the Pendleton campus of Tri-County Technical College.  Job candidates can learn about a coaching program that will help them with their personal marketing tools and networking strategies, target their search for in-demand jobs, get […]

Inside a small meeting room at Westminster City Hall, the city’s two top elected officials received the complaints from a disgruntled segment of the citizenry.  During a public hearing, those residents expressed their displeasure over higher electric power bills.  According to a couple of examples, the electric bills have run as high as $600 dollars a month.  At yesterday’s hearing, […]

School bus drivers have alerted Oconee County dispatch of flood-like conditions on U-S 76 near Westminster in the vicinity of Ramsay’s Creek and the Calvary Church of God.  The advice for all motorists is to be extra careful this morning. The S.C. Drought Response Committee downgraded the drought status yesterday of the coastal counties of South Carolina. Counties throughout the rest […]

State troopers say an accident north of Salem this hour has left one road blocked.  It’s an accident on South Carolina 107 near 28.

For the Oconee taxpayer, there’s something special to anticipate in the mail or, perhaps, dread.  The county tomorrow will mail more than 75 thousand property tax bills—the taxes to be paid are to run the county and school governments another year.  Auditor Ken Nix said this morning that if all bills are paid on time, the county treasury will take […]

Parts of South Carolina, including 101.7/WGOG land, have been dry.  But the forecast indicates some immediate relief on the way, rain beginning tonight and intensifying tomorrow.  And this is the day that the state’s Drought Response Committee meets by conference call to decide which areas of the state require an update of their drought status.  Since the committee’s last meeting […]