Author: Dick Mangrum

Everyone interested in Walhalla and its future is invited by the city to a meeting next week for a talk on current developments in Oconee’s second largest city.  The event is called Walhalla United, and it’ll take place at 6 o’clock Monday evening at the Center for the Performing Arts on N. Broad Street.

Word from the state capital this afternoon is that former Senecan Letitia Hamilton Verdin has won a seat on the South Carolina Supreme Court.  Senator Alexander says she was voted-in by a joint session of the legislature in a vote of 152-0.  Verdin currently sits on the state Appeals Court.  She’s one of three daughters of the late Angela and […]

Senator Lindsey Graham, SC-Republican, is part of a bi-partisan Senate delegation on their way to Normandy, France for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion by Allied Forces during the Second World War.  That landing and the fighting that ensued allowed the Allies to crush the Nazi World War 2 takeover of most of Europe.  “There will be 100 American […]

Two pickup trucks collided late in the afternoon Tuesday on SC 130/the Stamp Creek Road at Keowee Key, and there were injuries.  But, as reported by Chief Kris Childress to 101.7/WGOG NEWS, the two people hurt sustained minor injuries.  Involved were a pair of pickup trucks in a near head-on accident that, for a short time, closed thru traffic on […]

A woman with a manufacturing background from the Pickens County town of Central has been named to the governing board of the Tri-County Technical College.  Melanie McLane was appointed by Governor McMaster to a three-year term effective June 3, to represent Pickens County.  McLane was part of the Anthrex startup team for the Pendleton area plant in 2019, an expansion […]

Among a committee of Walhalla government there’s talk about retaining a Spartanburg County firm to handle the city’s building and codes services.  Celia Myers, city administrator, says CC&I of Roebuck, SC would offer online permitting and on-site inspections.  Calls made for inspections made before 4 pm on a weekday will be scheduled for the following day.  As for compensation, CC&I […]

A Pickens, South Carolina man has been arrested in the Oconee Sheriff’s Office investigation of a home burglary in the Seneca area, near S. Friendship Road.  According to the sheriff’s office, charges of first degree burglary and petty larceny are placed against Michael Anthony McCrary.  After a bond hearing, law enforcement authorities transferred 26-year-old McCrary to the Anderson County Detention […]

South Carolina DSS says it has been able to distribute $6.1 million in bonuses to the state’s childcare pros.  They amount to one-time wage boosts to those in the early childhood workforce.  SC BOO$T is a federally-funded program using supplemental funds as allowed by regulations of “ARPA” — the American Rescue Plan Act.  The following accolade from Melissa Starker, director […]

First-term city councilman Josh Thomas says some of Walhalla’s sidewalks could benefit from pressure washing, and last night Thomas inquired as to whether the city has sidewalk pressure washing equipment or access to such equipment.  Thomas is especially concerned about the looks of the sidewalk on N. Catherine Street, from Main Street to Sertoma Field – where the city each […]

The public swimming season has begun in Walhalla.  The city announces that its pool on W. Main Street is open.  For hours of operation and more information, you can go to faymca.com.