Author: Dick Mangrum

Stewart Jones, one of the eight Republican hopefuls for the Third District congressional seat, stopped at 101.7/WGOG on a day of campaigning in Oconee County, ahead of Tuesday’s primary election.  Jones, a state representative from Laurens County, plans this evening to make one of his stops Seneca’s Jazz on the Alley.  With so many men and women on the ballot […]

A court hearing is set Tuesday in Walhalla to settle a case of wrongful death allegations against Prisma Health Upstate and the Oconee Memorial Hospital.  An attorney for plaintiff Brad White of Pickens County will ask Judge McIntosh to approve a negotiated settlement at the pre-trial stage.  Under the terms of the negotiated settlement White, as special administrator for the […]

For 10 years, Preston Pierce has managed Duke Energy’s Jocassee Hydro Station.  Ahead of next week’s celebration of the hydro station’s 50th year, Pierce spoke to 101.7/WGOG NEWS about the public event that takes place there a week from tomorrow – Friday morning, June 15, and what visitors will get to see.  The hydro station was built in 1973 to […]

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 […]