Author: Dick Mangrum

An Oconee woman is in Milwaukee, Wisconsin this morning for the start of the four-day Republican National Convention.  Serving as a delegate from Oconee is Pat Murray, the leader of the county GOP Women’s Club.  Among those taking part in the convention there’s relief that former President Trump survived an assassination attempt but dismay that such a thing could happen.

  Was it luck?  Or an example of diligence on the part of a young real estate agent?  John Hamrick’s competitors have probably wondered how it came to be that he got a foot in the door when it came to being the preferred property seller for a Duke Power subsidiary that managed lakeshore properties the electric power utility didn’t […]

A meeting of the Westminster Planning Commission takes place at 6 tonight at city hall.

U-S Rep. Jeff Duncan calls for an independent commission to investigate what he considers as a catastrophic failure to protect former President Trump at a campaign rally Saturday near Pittsburgh.  Duncan, 3rd District Republican from Laurens, says the first question to be answered is how a rooftop line-of-sight position was left unpatrolled or uncovered by kinetic surveillance.

Oconee Democratic Party will host a visit by the party’s nominee for U-S House of Representatives from the South Carolina Third Congressional District.  The public is invited to meet and hear Byron Best of Greenwood at 6:30 Thursday night, July 18 at party headquarters, S. College Street, Walhalla.

City of Walhalla Water Department has repaired the water line in the North Highway 11 area and water service is being restored. A boil water advisory is now in place to the affected areas. An early morning water line break along North Highway 11 has caused low system pressures and a drained storage tank resulting in a water outage for […]