Author: Dick Mangrum

A property offense faces a 36-year old Westminster area man in the police department’s investigation of a July 10 crime at the city’s Hardee’s Restaurant.  A warrant issued by the local magistrate’s office accuses Christopher William Underwood of the Theo Martin Road of throwing a rock through the entrance of the E. Main Street restaurant, inflicting $5 thousand damage.  Underwood […]

This afternoon will be another free food day at a Walhalla place of worship.  From 4:30 to 5:30 today, the pantry at St. Luke Methodist on E. Main will dispense a number of commodities.  One church worker tells us there will be cheese, produce, and frozen meat to hand out.  

Public safety responders were sent to a midafternoon car accident yesterday at a Walhalla intersection that sent both drivers to the hospital.  The accident, according to a report received by 101.7/WGOG NEWS, demolished both cars–one of which was a Clemson city squad car.  The accident was reported at 2:40 pm in the traffic light intersection of SC 28/the Blue Ridge […]

The West Union mayor and a councilwoman showed interest last night to include their town in a study for a “wide open” look at the operations of the Joint Regional Sewer Authority.  Chris Eleazer, JRSA executive director, assured the mayor and council that if West Union endorsed an application to finance the study, there would be no direct cost to […]

Seneca’s 2020 tornado damaged the city’s disc golf course. The job to repair will go to McAllister’s Grading.  That decision reached during last night’s city council meeting.

With only four members who meet in a small meeting room to represent their town, West Union Town Council meetings are often informal, relaxed and filled with banter common to small town government.  And that’s quite OK according to a visitor from Columbia who was asked to evaluate whether West Union follows proper meeting procedures.  At the invitation of Mayor […]

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) today announced it has signed a cooperative agreement with South Carolina under the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program (LFPA). Through LFPA, the South Carolina Department of Agriculture seeks to purchase and distribute locally grown, produced, and processed food from underserved producers. “USDA is excited to partner with South […]

Two men are billed as special guests for this evening’s July meeting of the West Union Town Council.  Chris Eleazer of the Joint Regional Sewer Authority will discuss and answer questions about the authority which operates Oconee’s sewer service; Jeff Shacker of the state Municipal Association will explain to the mayor and council the proper procedures for meetings.

The police chief in Seneca, Casey Bowling, would like the public to be aware that someone is falsely posing as a Seneca policeman on the telephone.  This is a scam, Bowling says.  No one from the Seneca police will call you and say you need to pay a fine.  It appears these scam calls are coming from more than one […]