Author: Dick Mangrum

For the latest three days of counts available, the state health agency has recorded COVID-19 test positivity at below 10%.  On Thursday, it was 7.7%; on Friday, 7.7%; and on Saturday, 6.7%.  However, three days of deaths statewide amounted to 106, including three Oconeeans who were recorded on Friday as dead from the virus.

Oconee School District counts 80 cases of COVID-19 in the public schools over a period of seven days.  In total, there have been 903 cases since the schools opened in August—750 of them students.  Here are the monthly numbers so far:  for August, 508; September, 379; and in October so far, 16.  All 50 closures so far this year were […]

The new kidney transplant program at Greenville Memorial Hospital has received approval from the United Network for Organ Sharing to perform transplants.  Prisma Health Transplant Center expects to see its first patients early this month.  It promises leading-edge care to kidney-disease patients who previously had to travel more than 100 miles for transplant-related procedures.  According to the organ sharing network, […]

A spokesman for the Oconee Sheriff’s Office says there has been a verbal confirmation that a missing Salem woman has been located and is safe.  Over the weekend, Jennifer Nicole McLane was the subject of a missing person’s report, after having not been seen for a week. Master Deputy Jimmy Watt says to remove McLane as missing from the database […]

A man on a solo fishing hike to the Wild and Scenic Chattooga River remains unaccounted for this morning, according to Allen White, chief of the Mountain Rest Volunteer Fire Department.  White says the search for him resumes this morning.  His SUV has been found, but no sign of him and, according to White, his family is concerned.

The deaths of two AAA tow providers has the motor club raising awareness of the dangers that public safety responders face on the roadside and how critical it is that drivers follow move over laws.  Glenn Ewing was killed near Cincinnati while placing a disabled vehicle on the back of a flatbed on the side of the road; David Meyer […]

According to Oconee Sheriff’s Office, two people inside a vehicle near Walhalla were arrested in a traffic stop in which a county deputy received help from both the Walhalla and the West Union police.  The sheriff’s office announced charges of trafficking in heroin and possession of a controlled substance—the psychoactive drug ecstasy—against Kayla Leann Sullivan, 25, and Barry Dee Palmer […]