Author: Dick Mangrum

With the flu season beginning in September, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) reminds residents how important it is to be protected against influenza this year by getting your annual flu shot. Many pharmacies, pediatricians, and vaccine providers already are offering flu shots. The quadrivalent flu vaccine that’s currently available this year protects against the four […]

Oconee County Council gave preliminary approval for Walhalla to apply $2.4 million to water system improvements.  The money amounts to Local Coronavirus Fiscal Recovery funds for which the county governing body acts as a pass-thru.  And Brandon Burton, Walhalla’s first-year city administrator, expressed his gratitude last night to the county councilmen.  In remarks, Burton identified two specific projects to be […]

  A business publication reports that a manufacturer is adding a line of tools to its Oconee County factory. According to the publication GSA Business Report, the move by the Sandvik plant on 123, the Sandifer Boulevard, is a strategy to raise its market share of solid round tools and will engage Clemson University resources to enhance production capabilities such […]

Oconee County resident Margaret Harper renewed her plea last night for county government and the general citizenry to make a greater effort at alleviating poverty in the county.  At a recent meeting, Harper lamented the population segment so down on their luck and suggested the need for a second homeless shelter in the county.  Last night she urged the need […]

As noted by the county councilman Matthew Durham, Oconee’s tax base has grown enough to allow for a drop in the formula that sets property tax bills.  Last night, at the recommendation of the auditor, the council set total millage at 226, a drop of nearly of two mills from the previous year.  Now that millage is set, the office […]

Sirens sounded and emergency lights flashed around 8 o’clock last night near Seneca.  Chief Deputy Kevin Davis of the Oconee Sheriff’s Office said a male officer, on her way to answering a call, was involved in an accident at 123 and Keowee Trail.  There were no immediate details available.  

A homeowner used an extinguisher to stop a fire last night in the kitchen of his mobile home near Walhalla.  No one was hurt.  Capt. Will Bates of the Walhalla Fire Department said the fire occurred shortly after 6:30 pm in a doublewide mobile home on Woodland Drive near the Coffee Road.

New cases of the virus:  1,852 (49 in Oconee). New deaths statewide:  93 (two in Oconee). Of 22,438 test results received, the positivity:  13%. (These data reflect the DHEC count for Sunday)

South of the railroad in Seneca, the police say, they saw a man jump over a fence at Jones Avenue and S. Stribling Street.  That, the police say, led to the arrest of a 44-year old man on charges of peeping tom and disorderly conduct.  The police investigation of a Hunter Street incident took place Sunday.