Author: Dick Mangrum

Some 53 and one-quarters acres which Oconee County intends to buy is property that is  adjacent to the county’s Solid Waste Complex on the Wells Highway.  It’s not, as 101.7/WGOG NEWS earlier reported, adjoining the landfill.  After an executive session, the county council voted to commit up to $200 thousand to make the purchase.  This morning Amanda Brock, county administrator, […]

Oconee County in court papers named the estate of a Utica property owner in a condemnation notice filing, accompanied by an offer by the county to acquire the property.  A county code enforcement officer at the end of 2019 found 14 Padgett Street, including a mobile home on the property, to violate the International Property Maintenance Code.  The county now […]

The COVID-19 test facility at Clemson’s Nettles Park will be closed from Thursday, December 23 through Sunday, January 2 and re-open on Monday, January 3.  You can find an alternate test location by visiting the test site page on the South Carolina DHEC website.

If COVID-19 cases are spiking across the country, why have case numbers within Oconee public schools dropped off?  Here’s a theory from Dr. Thorsland, district superintendent, in response to a question today from 101.7/WGOG NEWS.  Thorsland said, “I’m not a medical expert, but we had such a spike in cases in August/September, it might have given our area of the […]

Salem community churches are inviting the public to return this weekend for their annual drive-thru, “Living Christmas Story.”  It’s the sixth annual holiday event to be held this weekend–Friday through Sunday, December 10-12 from 6 to 8 o’clock at night at the Eagle Ridge School, formerly the Tamassee-Salem Middle and High School campus.

Senator Tim Scott, South Carolina’s Junior U-S senator, is a co-sender of a letter to the acting Social Security commissioner to immediately reopen SSA’s field offices to the public.  “On March 17, 2020,” the letter from Scott and fellow Republican Mike Crapo of Idaho reads, “the Social Security Administration (SSA) suspended in-person services because of the COVID-19 pandemic.  This suspension […]

A 37-year old Greenville County man faces a Seneca charge of financial identity fraud.  The Seneca police yesterday released details of a case in which a cancelled electric customer did not receive a $500 dollar check from the power supplier.  An arrest warrant accused Randall Adam King of Travelers Rest of financial identity fraud.  The police quote the victim as […]

Driving in parts of Seneca and east of the city were problematic late yesterday afternoon.  At 4 o’clock, tow trucks were removing car wreckage from the Food Lion intersection that made for a long backup for Seneca bound motorists.  The line of traffic that came to a halt stretched on 123 from the Old Seneca-Clemson Highway to Hartwell Village shopping […]

Crimestoppers of Oconee announces the sweetening of reward money for information that solves the truth in the death in 2014 of Clemson student Tucker Hipps.  The North American Inter-fraternity Conference and the Anti-Hazing Coalition have pledged an additional $20 thousand, to make the current potential reward money at $100 thousand.  Hipps’ body was found in Lake Hartwell near the 93 […]

After an executive session, Oconee County Council approved motion to commit up to $200 thousand to buy property adjoining the county landfill at Seneca.  David Root, county attorney, said the deal will require paying closing costs in the transaction.