Author: Dick Mangrum

A judge’s ruling settles a circuit court dispute among neighboring Oconee property owners.  Judge McIntosh has declared the rural Ellenburg Road that leads to Lake Keowee is a public road and, further, there’s no evidence the county abandoned the road.  Today’s ruling favors defendants Oconee County as well as two partnerships that include other property owners.  It follows three days […]

Indications are that the legal challenge to Oconee’s $25 million bond issue for capital projects, including wastewater, will make its way into a courtroom this month in the form of a pre-trial motion.  A Common Pleas Court docket indicates the moving party is defendant Oconee County, which will ask for a dismissal of the plaintiffs’ request for an injunction.  The […]

Not everything in the new South Carolina budget meets the approval of the state’s chief executive.  Governor McMaster today made known his vetoes of certain line items.  Still, however, he believes there’s much in the new spending plan that will advance the state.  Among what McMaster highlights as worthy:  $556 thousand to hire three additional “SLED” agents dedicated to animal […]

The brown water problem, the importance to conserve water, and where Walhalla’s utilities department goes now, as the city’s long-time director leaves for a job in nearby Westminster.  They are topics that Mayor Tim Hall addressed today to 101.7/WGOG NEWS.  Walhalla water customers remain under voluntary cutbacks and restrictions about outside watering, but the first-year mayor says the city’s tanks […]

At a young age, Tennessean Rod Stipe fell in love with the Chattooga Wild and Scenic River and he plotted how one day he might live locally.  He has been able to accomplish that and, now as a Long Creek resident, he finds himself leading the Oconee Democratic Party.  101.7/WGOG NEWS today polled Stipe on his stance on whether Joe […]

A search has ended in Toccoa, Goergia in the case of an officer-involved shooting on Monday.  Authorities say the suspect in the case, Montavious Cantrell Winkfield, surrendered yesterday afternoon to the police in Lavonia.  Thirty-seven-year-old Winkfield faces charges in an incident that began with reports of a kidnapping and an assault.  It further escalated, authorities allege, when Winkfield shot at […]

A public hearing is planned in Clemson this month on an ordinance on an agreement to expand the Pendleton/Clemson Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant.  The hearing takes place at 5 pm Monday, July 15 in city hall council chambers.  All interested persons may appear and be heard.

A $12.5 million investment from the U-S Economic Development Administration will allow Clemson University to expand its electric grid simulator for rapid testing and the deployment of new energy innovation.  The investment is part of a $45 million award to a consortium of colleges, state agencies, and electric utilities, among others.  The South Carolina Department of Commerce is a core […]

Clemson promises a lighted Lake Hartwell from tonight’s fireworks show, starting at 9:15.  If you are going, parking is available in Lot 3A, near the intramural fields next to the baseball stadium.  Walhalla’s Independent Fest takes place tonight, starting with the opening of a Main Street carnival at 6 o’clock.  At 9, around dusk, look for the city’s annual fireworks […]