Author: Dick Mangrum

Signs are up on South Carolina 11 to indicate the Oconee Sheriff’s Office is taking part in the Adopt-a-Highway program. The Sheriff’s Office has adopted the section of highway 11 from Oconee Station Road near Picket Post Road to the intersection with 183. That area has significance for sheriff’s officers, for it’s the area where Deputy Bill Schuck lost his […]

Senator Tim Scott wrote a letter yesterday to Sloan Gibson, acting Veterans Affairs Secretary, for answers about backlogs, official waiting lists and what the South Carolina Republican called secret waiting lists or unauthorized lists at 13 V-A facilities in South Carolina. Scott announced the letter after a series of listening sessions and office hours where he talked with veterans about […]

State Representative Bill Sandifer, chairman of the Oconee Legislative Delegation, has announced a joint meeting of the state lawmakers and the Oconee County Council—for the purpose of open dialogue between the two political bodies. The meeting takes place 7:30 Monday night, June 30 at Seneca’s Gignilliat Center. No agenda has been established. The meeting is open to the press and […]

Wayne McCall foresees in the election of two new Oconee County Council members a change in power. And the District Two councilman is pleased, as evidenced during this afternoon’s interview with 96.3/WGOG NEWS. In his time on council, McCall frequently has embraced and reveled in the role of a maverick. That could change, starting in January once Edda Cammick joins […]

  A man doing work at a home near Walhalla while the family was on vacation has been arrested and charged with breaking into that home and stealing. Law enforcement reports today identify the man arrested as James Anthony Reed. Two addresses are listed for the 23-year old Reed: Allen Street, Seneca and Redland Ranch Road near Walhalla. He was placed […]

A Clemson University senior lecturer who helped improve the understanding of thermal hydraulics as France became a world leader in nuclear power is looking forward to fall semester after wrapping up a year bookended by two honors. Jean Marc Delhaye won a Clemson University teaching award almost exactly a year after a professional society recognized his pioneering research with nuclear […]

Five-hundred coupons, each worth $25 worth of produce, went quickly this week at the Oconee United Way in Seneca. This summer’s supply of coupons was exhausted by the first hour of the second day of the hand-outs. And while those coupons are now in the hands of deserving senior citizens, the United Way is hopeful that they’ll be quickly redeemed […]

The stroke of a pen this week by Governor Nikki Haley signed into law a bill that makes texting while driving illegal throughout South Carolina. It supercedes all other ordinances, such as Oconee County’s first-year law that forbids drivers’ use of communication devices while their vehicles are in motion. It also means that driving in Oconee with one ear pressed […]

Two seats on Oconee County’s Soil and Water Conservation Commission are available during this year’s November General Election. But to land a space on the ballot, a candidate must first collect 100 signatures of county residents by petition. The two seats available this year are those seats currently held by Bob Winchester and Carol Hendrix, and both are engaged in […]

A new FBI national campaign is aimed at stopping people from pointing lasers at aircraft. It’s a federal violation that presents danger to the pilots, passengers and those on the ground. The FBI offers a reward of up to $10 thousand for information that leads to the arrest of any individual who aims a laser at aircraft. The reward is […]