Author: Dick Mangrum

Oconee’s public schools are about to shut down for the summer. But the summer months do not mean an end to the meals offered by Oconee Schools Food Services. Free lunch meals will be available at locations in Seneca, Walhalla and Westminster. One lunch per child will be served at three locations beginning Monday, June 9 at Code Academy in […]

Michelle McCollum, executive director of the South Carolina National Heritage Corridor, invited Walhalla leaders to consider an arrangement in which the corridor would help the city promote its local and area tourist attractions. McCollum said the corridor would be willing to match every dollar spent from her organization—such as what it’s doing with Georgetown, Lake City, and Edgefield. One form […]

In two weeks, the Walhalla mayor and council will be asked to vote on a new budget that cuts overall spending by 1% from the current year—2013-14. At the same time, however, Chairman Tjay Bagwell of the General Government Committee says the new budget has been calculated to raise recreation department fees and sewer charges—the first sewer rate increase in […]

In his first meeting, Oconee County Councilman Paul Cain called on his colleagues to talk about returning prayer to start council meetings. Cain, the new District Three councilman, provided the council letters from the State Association of Counties, along with citations on public prayer in the state code. But, at the request of Chairman Joel Thrift, discussion was tabled until […]

The 96.3/WGOG Flea Market moves to a new time starting today.  Listen for the Flea Market every weekday morning–starting at 10 o’clock.

An Oconee sheriff’s investigator who spent yesterday working on a Foxwood Hills home development burglary says he has recovered stolen goods and two arrests are pending.

Walhalla City Council members broke up their closed meeting after more than an hour last night—with no action taken. The mayor and council met with their utilities superintendent and a representative of a Greenville engineering company for what was advertised as a contract matter. Afterward Danny Woodward, utilities committee chairman, was referring comment to others and Mayor Danny Edwards said, […]

An autopsy shows Jerry Wayne Kelly of the Pickens County town of Central died yesterday near Salem as the result of blunt force trauma due to Kelly’s 22-24′ fall at a home under construction at  156 Blue Water Lane–near the Oconee-Pickens line.  Oconee Coroner Karl Addis says although pre-existing medical conditions existed, the autopsy found no medical problem that contributed […]

Magistrate Will Derrick will administer the oath of office this evening to Paul Cain, Oconee’s newest county councilman. The swearing-in is set for 5 o’clock at council chambers—an hour before the start of the first Tuesday council meeting.

Chairman Bob Skipp weighed in today on the two ballot questions that the state’s Republican Party will pose next week to those who vote in its primary election. Those questions cover right-to-life issues and whether South Carolina should eliminate its income tax. Skipp’s comments are being re-played today on 96.3/WGOG NEWS.