Author: Dick Mangrum

South Carolina and Georgia have gone together to make an application of the federal government for a planning grant to replace or rehabilitate as many as six bridges that straddle the two states over Lake Hartwell.  According to the SCDOT, the application requests $1.68M in the Bridge Investment Program for what’s called a Planning and Environmental Linkages Study for 2.5 […]

The office of the Oconee Clerk of Court has summoned 175 county residents to make up the jury pool for next week’s term of the Common Pleas Court in Walhalla.  The 175 are to report for duty as the jury pool for the case of Stokes v. Oconee County et al.  It’s a case that has been seven years in […]

“Clemson’s Driving Forward with Green Transit” project is getting federal funding. Some $4.6 million dollars from the Federal Transit Administration of the U-S DOT is to buy new compressed natural gas buses to replace aging diesel buses.  They are designed for improved service efficiency and to lower operating and maintenance costs.  The federal grant is part of $1.5 billion in […]

Scorching temperatures that make worse the dry conditions and too much of watering lawns continue to plague the Walhalla water system.  They, however, are just two of the problems that city officials zeroed-in on during this morning’s city hall meeting.  The city utilities committee meeting also focused on low water tank levels and the demand that expanding water service to […]

The South Carolina Public Service Commission has approved higher Duke Energy customer charges based on a settlement agreement of Duke’s Carolinas rate review application filed with the state in January.  The higher charges come after a process that included public hearings.  The agreement involves consumer, environmental and industry groups.  Starting August 1 of this year a typical residential customer using […]

State Senator Thomas Alexander has learned that the South Carolina DOT has applied to the U-S DOT for a planning grant to address I-85 changes at Fair Play, including the interstate bridge crossing to Georgia.  According to Alexander, he was told yesterday that the state DOT awaits word on whether the federal agency will approve the grant.  Widening 85 at […]

A Clemson University professor, Jens Oberheide, is part of a team of researchers receiving a $2 million award from NASA for a concept study of a proposed mission investigating the connection between space weather and the Earth’s atmosphere.  Clemson’s Oberheide is a co-investigator in the proposal spearheaded by the University of Colorado Boulder, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, NASA’s […]

Parents in the 21st century are being asked to become familiar with the crime of sextortion and how it victimizes children.  The FBI announces a meeting this month in Greenville to help parents protect their families from when predators use threats or manipulation to coerce a minor into producing and sending sexually explicit images and uses threats to demand something […]

If you are an adult Oconeean with a desire to brush up on your education, the week of July 29 is important.  Starting at 9 Monday morning, July 29 and continuing until Monday, August 5, Oconee Adult Education will take applications for the upcoming year for GED, High School Diploma, the Family Literacy Program, and English as a Second Language.  […]