Author: Dick Mangrum

A 510-acre prescribed burn is planned this fall near Cashiers, North Carolina. Southeast of Cashiers and east of Silver Run Falls, the burn is planned by the U-S Forest Service and the NC Forest Service on private land. It’s one of four prescribed burns scheduled this fall in the Nantahala National Forest, with the others just west of Sylva. The […]

 Oconee County now has something new, besides an annual breakfast, to remember and pay tribute to its Purple Heart military veterans. In the midst of Veterans Day weekend, a large crowd gathered on Walhalla’s Main Street in front of Veterans Park for the dedication and unveiling of the Military Order of Purple Heart Chapter 748 Monument Dedication. The event attracted […]

The S.C. Department of Transportation has started emergency procurement of contractor services to make the needed repairs to the Pickens County bridge crossing Eighteen Mile Creek on Secondary 18. Secretary of Transportation Robert St. Onje Jr. gave the authorization so that the road can be reopened to traffic as quickly as possible. “This road carries almost 3,800 vehicles a day […]

The reason for a smoky sky, according to the Oconee Fire Chief, is the controlled burn in progress today at the county’s Echo Hills Industrial Park. There, two building pads are being prepared in a first phase effort at highway 11 property, for which county leaders have high hopes to create jobs through economic development. At Echo Hills this morning, […]

With a paperwork glitch out of the way, West Union will finally see its dilapidated former public school building taken down. And the contractors are predicting the job will be quick. Dewayne Pelfrey, project manager for Southern Capital and Development of Seneca, predicts the entire job, the building demolition and the asbestos removal to precede it, will take no more […]

At last weekend’s Miss West-Oak High School Pageant, the overall winner was Hannah Pressley. And Hannah telephoned 96.3/WGOG NEWS this morning to announce the winners of her court. The names of those winners can be heard this afternoon on 96.3/WGOG NEWS.

Homecoming festivities kickoff tonight at Clemson’s Littlejohn Coliseum with the 56th Annual Tigerama. Tigergate Tailgate will be a 5:30 event on the lawn of Littlejohn featuring live music, a magician, appearances by Clemson student-athletes and organizations, games and prizes. At 7 Tigerama begins inside the coliseum. The emcees tonight are Miss South Carolina and student Ali Rogers and former Tiger […]

Veterans from all branches of the U-S Armed Forces are to be honored during a breakfast this morning at Walhalla Middle School. All veterans and their families are invited at 8:30.

The victim of the early yesterday pickup truck accident on Oconee’s Blackjack Road was a 35-year old resident of the Crossroads area. April Craig of the Williams Farm Road died at 12:20 a-m of what the coroner said was asphyxiation after the vehicle came to rest atop her. Coronel Karl Addis ruled the death of April Craig accidental.

A 41-year old Pickens man is under arrest, accused of indecent exposure in his home county in incidents that allegedly began last summer. The Pickens County Sheriff’s Department this afternoon announced the arrest of Douglas Dean Evans who, it said, was seen in and around the Easley and Liberty post offices wearing ladies lingerie only, high heel shoes, and a […]