Author: Dick Mangrum

Walhalla’s leaders are one step away from appointing a new police chief. During a meeting last night of the police committee, a vote of 3-0 recommended Ronald Wilbanks, the interim chief, to succeed Tim Chastain, who stepped down. The vote by committee chairman James Powell and committee members Tjay Bagwell and Jennifer Woodward Crawford will be referred to full council […]

Cash and food were stolen Sunday from a room at Clemson University’s Johnstone Hall. Now the campus police say they have charged an 18-year old freshman engineering major with felony and misdemeanor public disorderly conduct. Avery Tanner Boone was released on a personal recognizance bond of a little more than $10 thousand. According to the university, the police have referred […]

A Seneca High student is one of six winners of the 2012 Student of Integrity Awards from the Better Business Bureau of the Upstate. Seneca’s Noah Kent Wigington and the other winners were recognized last Thursday at the Hyatt Regency in Greenville and each will receive a $1,000 scholarship to attend an accredited college or university. The awards go annually […]

On the day the demolition of the former West Union school is likely to begin, there is a degree of relief felt by those who tried to save the old building from the wrecking ball. Martha Moore says she and other members of the former West Union School Preservation Association succeeded last night in getting town council to sign off […]

A Seneca wrecker service operator says the city’s policies covering which wrecker service may tow vehicles involved in accidents is unfair to him and forces his company to rely on out of town business. Bobby Cartee, who spoke during the public comment period at last night’s city council meeting, says he’s a third generation member of a local family that […]

Mike Crenshaw, Oconee’s Sheriff-elect, is planning to make the announcement on who will be second-in-command during his administration. And that announcement could be just hours away today. Crenshaw told 96.3/WGOG NEWS that his chief deputy will be a member of the current Oconee Sheriff’s Department. Meantime, Crenshaw is making use of a conference room at the Law Enforcement Center to […]

An error appeared in yesterday’s announcement on how how Oconee public schools fared in the Education Oversight Committee’s report card. It was reported that Blue Ridge Elementary School had attained an excellent rating in the category governing achievement measures for the 2012 school year. The correct rating for that Seneca school is average, meaning that in the case of Blue […]

Attorneys for eight employees have filed a personal injury lawsuit against Tenneco, the largest employer in Hart County in northeast Georgia. WLHR Lake Hartwell Radio reports the workers, two of whom live in South Carolina, claim Tenneco failed to adequately protect them from the chemical hexavalent chromium. The chemical is described as caustic and dangerous and, after long-term exposure,is known […]

A late night fire killed one person Monday night in Stephens County, Georgia. WNEG in Toccoa reports the fire marshal there is attempting to determine what caused the fire on 123 in the vicinity of Osborne Wood Products. Oconee County’s Cleveland Volunteer Fire Department was among several responding fire departments.

In spite of changes at midstream, Pioneer Rural Water district is pushing ahead with plans to build its first treatment plant, using a substitute Lake Hartwell location for its raw water intake line. According to its consultants, the district is pursuing a location inside the Golden Corner Commerce Park for its plant and a Durham Road, Lake Hartwell location for […]