Author: Dick Mangrum

The Joint Regional Sewer Authority agreed yesterday to review its enforcement of fats, oils and grease regulations as they apply to restaurants.  The JRSA recently assigned an employee to enforce the frequency for cleaning the traps beneath the sinks of delis, ice cream shops and the like – but having to clean them as often as once a week is […]

City of Walhalla’s annual Independence Fest takes place Wednesday evening, when a carnival opens at 6 o’clock on the City Square.  An hour later on the City Green, Crutchfield Music will perform.  At dusk, around 9 Wednesday night, there’ll be a fireworks display.  The carnival is a multi-night event at the City Square.  Thursday and Friday hours are 6 to […]

Russ Price, public works director for Walhalla, is alerting sanitation customers to the change that the July 4 holiday will mean for pick-ups.  Those customers who normally see their trash scooped up on either Thursday or Friday, should have their roll cart out by 7 o’clock Wednesday morning.  All other Walhalla routes will run without change.

Prisma Health says it is investing $41 million to replace inpatient beds with 1,500 Hillrom smart beds that will replace beds that are at the end of their life cycle. To be added to the replacement beds is a re-positioning technology that Prisma Health says will allow a caregiver to reposition a patient safely and comfortably in bed in fewer […]

A loud crashing sound heard early Friday in downtown Lavonia, Georgia, the police say, was a truck striking the Eagle monument, directly across from the police station.  A Texas man, Richard Bullock, is quoted by the investigating policeman that around 4 o’clock in the morning he swerved to miss a pothole, lost control of his Chevy truck, but denied hitting […]

An Oconeean has lost $22 thousand on the mistaken belief that he had won a $3 million dollar sweepstakes.  Publishers Clearinghouse is a legitimate operation, says Jimmy Watt of the Oconee Sheriff’s Office.  In this case, however, numerous telephone calls were from scammers, from different numbers telling an Oconeean he had won $3 million.  The victim complied with a request […]

An issue in front of the Clemson City Council tonight is extending an agreement with Seneca for bus passenger service.  The city of Seneca contracts with Clemson to operate its system.  According to the proposal to be considered tonight, the arrangement between Clemson and Seneca is to run on a month-by-month basis.  The hourly rate would increase from $85 dollars […]

A 12-year-old pet dog has gone missing in rural Oconee County.  During the night, there had been no sightings of the Chihuahua, a diabetic in need of insulin.  The pooch went missing June 19 from Argo Road, Seneca area.  The owner requests if seen, please do not chase but call 864/367-3228.  A reward is offered.