Author: Dick Mangrum

An Anderson teacher from Walhalla brought her campaign Saturday to her fellow Oconee County Democrats.  Frances Guldner expects to be part of what appears to be a three-candidate campaign to win her party’s nomination to run for the U-S House of Representatives.  Guldner shared with 101.7/WGOG NEWS one part of her five-point platform which reads:  “Let’s make sure we work […]

Seneca’s Ed Halbig, departing for New Mexico, will head up a department bureau for the state of New Mexico.  A farewell event is being held this afternoon at city hall for the 21-year (“and some change”, he says), director of planning and community development.  He will now work for the New Mexico Department of Transportation as chief of its bureau […]

A third-year Oconee school bus driver has been placed on administrative leave – the result of a district investigation that determined an elementary student was dropped off at the wrong address on Monday, more than one mile from the correct one.  The district apologizes to the student, the family, and the community, as whole.  The district statement today reads:  “We […]

Senator Tim Scott, South Carolina Republican, urged Chairman Jerome Powell of the Federal Reserve to focus on economic areas of concern rather than what the senator calls political priorities.  In a banking hearing Scott stressed that illegal immigration, especially at the rates the country is experiencing, has a negative impact on the economy and wages.  The senator concedes the U-S […]

Oconee’s third-term sheriff is a Second Amendment supporter, but he foresees the possibility that a simple argument in public can escalate to the point of needless gunfire.  Sheriff Crenshaw’s comments on the open carry bill signed into law yesterday by the governor are carried today on 101.7/WGOG NEWS.

101.7/WGOG NEWS has learned of concern in Clemson for the future of a long-standing restaurant.  There’s some belief that those behind the HUB planned development for Keowee Trail and Wall Street may want to absorb the Pot Belly Deli.  The following is from a report issued by Clemson following the February 8 “Conversation with Council”:  “Pot Belly Deli was told […]

Judge McIntosh made no immediate ruling yesterday on an Oconee public defender’s plea to lower the $250 thousand bond of a client. “Let me think about it,” the judge told lawyers from both sides. Derek Lydell Coleman has been jailed in Oconee since May last year after he and a second Virginia resident were arrested following an alleged I-85 road […]

Responsibility for a Pendleton man’s death in 2015 was laid upon a Seneca resident during a court proceeding yesterday at Pickens.  After a guilty plea to voluntary manslaughter, Kerry Cobb of Seneca was sent to prison for 15 years.  Spokesman Robert Kittle for the state attorney’s general called it a negotiated sentence, predicated on Cobb revealing the location of the […]