Author: Dick Mangrum

Amanda Brock, Oconee County administrator, acknowledges there are additional properties in the packet for today’s annual delinquent tax sale.  And, she says, COVID and the hard economic times are likely to be factors contributing to that.  It’s a well-attended sale—with potential bidders parking cars, trucks, and even a motorcycle in the parking lot of the Center for Performing Arts Center, […]

Walhalla’s Chicopee Field was the scene this weekend of an arrest made by the city police.  Multiple charges were placed against a West Union resident, Bryan Ashley Evans.  The police say one of the charges—assault police officer while arresting arrest—was made as a police officer attempted to serve the 42-year old Evans with a court bench warrant.

An Oconee County delinquent property tax sale is attracting hundreds of people, apparently out for a bargain, to today’s event in the Performing Center for the Arts.  The parking lot and adjoining streets are full of parked cars and trucks.

Families may find help paying back rent or satisfying past-due utility bills from a program through SC Housing.  The program is partnering with community organizations to help, especially now that the U-S Supreme Court has ended the moratorium on federal evictions.  SC Stay Plus begun in May is a rent and utility help program for renters financially impacted by COVID-19.  […]

The Seneca Transit Service invites riders and the public for a public hearing tomorrow afternoon to talk about bus routes.  The hearing takes place at 4 o’clock in the city council chambers, and a proposed route change is on display at the city hall during regular business hours.  If you are interested but can’t make tomorrow’s hearing, written comments may […]

A South Carolina Republican and an Arizona Democrat are part of a bi-partisan Senate effort to protect payments cuts that are being floated in their chamber.  South Carolina’s Tim Scott and Arizona’s Kyrsten Sinema have sent a letter to the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.  Medicare Advantage, also known as Medicare Part C, makes it possible […]

A rally for life has been announced at 4:30 tomorrow afternoon at the Oconee administrative complex in Walhalla, to precede the start of the 6 o’clock county council meeting.  At their regular meeting, the county fathers are to consider a resolution that declares Oconee a right-to-life county, to recognize humans in all stages of life—from pre-birth to natural death.

Thankful and a feeling of bless are some of the thoughts that Wayne Garland experienced when the 74-year old Walhallan finished his immense hike early this afternoon on the Appalachian Trail.  We spoke by phone moments ago with Garland, not long after he reached Georgia’s Springer Mountain.  Garland required about six months of actual hiking to finish his north-south route—from […]