Author: Dick Mangrum

The grant that will funnel $100 thousand for the Walhalla Pool comes from the S.C. General Assembly.  An earlier 96.3/WGOG NEWS report stated the money will come from the state Department of Health and Environmental Control.

Oconee School District’s first-year director of instruction is calling attention to provisions of a newly-passed law aimed at gauging how well third graders are reading. Ginger Hopkins says the legislation is titled, “Race to Succeed,” and while the objective is admirable it’s going to require an adjustment for affected third graders and their parents. According to Hopkins, the law will […]

  Walhalla fears have been realized. The crews at work to lay new water lines in the Chicopee Mill village have encountered rock formations, and it’s an expensive proposition. Scott Parris, utilities superintendent, at City Hall last night estimated, so far, $23 thousand out of a Community Development Block grant has had to be expended on removing the rock, and […]

  When the new Walhalla High opens next year, the middle school students next to the existing high school will move into the old high school building. But what happens to the middle school? It’s still a question. Steve Hanvey, director of district operations, says at one point the district gave thought to converting the middle school into the county’s […]

Leaders of Oconee public schools decline to say who they will be voting for next month, but they urge all voters to keep in mind education when they cast ballots. District administrators Steve Hanvey and Earnestine Williams are among the officials who want voters to conduct their own research as to who is best, from the standpoint of good public […]

The Oconee Memorial Hospital is heeding the call of the director of Centers for Disease Control. At Oconee Memorial, they are planning for a what-if. What if the hospital at Seneca were presented with a deadly case of the Ebola virus? Hunter Kome, the newly-named president of the Oconee Medical Campus, says, “We are taking steps to prepare. It’s a […]

Walhalla’s re-opened swimming pool is going to benefit from an influx of money from the state level. City leaders soon expect the resident state senator, Thomas Alexander, to bring home the bacon—a $100 thousand dollar grant from the state Department of Health and Environmental Control. The primary purpose for the grant is to adapt the W. Main Street pool to […]

The idea of Duke Energy workers parking in Seneca’s downtown and then shuttled by bus to the nuclear plant rubbed some merchants the wrong way.  And now the idea of Seneca making parking at the Norton-ThompsonPark available has been scrapped.  Merchants, such as SteveSprings and Bob Becker, made their concerns known during last night’s city council meeting.  They worry about […]

Mayor Danny Edwards predicts contractor bids will soon be requested for what Walhalla officials envision as stage one of Streetscape—the re-make of a four-block area of the downtown. Edwards made his prediction last night during a City Hall meeting after hearing Scott Parris, the utilities superintendent, report a variety of developments as Walhalla gets closer to converting Main Street, from […]

A California man who told Oconee deputies he was on his way to see his daughter wound up spending the night in jail. The Sheriff’s Office announced that Sacramento resident Eugene Duncan Jr. was charged with possession with intent to distribute marijuana after a traffic stop Monday on I-85 near the South Carolina 11 exit. Deputies say the use of […]