Author: Dick Mangrum

  From Dr. Edward Simmer, DHEC Director: “Fellow South Carolinians, Today the State of South Carolina reported 15 new deaths due to COVID-19, pushing the total South Carolinian lives lost so far to this virus past the 10,000 mark. While statistics are useful to measure data, there is no statistic for grief or comfort in a milestone for those who […]

At this hour, the state patrol is assisting a motorist on SC 28/the Highlands Highway, where the roadway is blocked in the vicinity of the Stumphouse Tunnel Park.  A passerby says the problem is a disabled camper.  Earlier, according to the patrol, three youngsters were sent for treatment after their golf cart turned over in the Foxwood Hills subdivision.

Prisma Health workers return tomorrow to Walhalla’s James Brown Elementary School to give the Pfizer vaccine to those people 12 years old and older in a drive-thru arrangement.  The clinic hours will be 2:30 to 6:30 pm. Tomorrow’s clinic will be held on the cafeteria side of the elementary school, to create separation from tomorrow’s James Brown back-to-school event. The […]

A student at Walhalla High School, Olivia Lee, was among 74 high-achieving students who took part this summer in a web-conference, part in-person event, sponsored by South Carolina electric cooperatives.  An article about Olivia’s experience and that of the other students appears in “South Carolina Living” — the magazine of the cooperatives.  The teenagers used their laptops and smartphones to […]

Nationwide tests are scheduled this afternoon of both the Emergency Alert System and the Wireless Emergency Alerts.  The national tests start at 2:20 this afternoon ET and are conducted by “FEMA”, in coordination with the FCC.  The EAS portion of the test will be sent to radio and TV.  The Wireless Emergency Alert will be directed only to consumer cell […]

A wild and free-ranging non-native black and white tegus lizard has, so far, been documented by 13 sightings since last summer in South Carolina, and the state DNR is concerned.  More than one-half of the sightings have been in the Columbia area, but the animal has also been seen in Pickens and Greenville counties.  Because of the potential negative impacts […]

The Anderson County Coroner’s Office identified a 66-year old truck driver from Concord, North Carolina as the man killed in a one-vehicle crash yesterday morning on I-85 in Anderson County, near mile marker 27.  He was Ralph Delano.  Delano was driving an 18-wheeler headed south when it left the interstate, hit guardrail, went through a fence, and impacted a power […]

Two young people have been charged with attempted murder and other offenses in the Oconee Sheriff’s Office investigation of the gun shot wounding of a man last week at a home near Westminster, in the Holly Springs Community.  The sheriff’s office announced yesterday that Gavin Lamar Tukes, 18, of N. Spring Street, Westminster and Sayphonh Miranda Aquilla Xayachack, 25, of […]

In a Tuesday event-filled afternoon, 101.7/WGOG NEWS learned of a Walhalla to West Union police chase, a wreck that backed 123 Seneca By-Pass traffic, and an apparent isolated storm that downed a tree across SC 130 at Little River Road, north of Salem. Walhalla Police Chief Brinson says his counterpart at West Union, Josh Epps, was able to stop a […]

Boxes of food will be given away this afternoon in Walhalla.  To receive a box of packaged food including vegetables, cheese and chicken, simply show at the St. Luke Methodist Church on E. Main between 4:30 and 5:30.