Author: Dick Mangrum

The West Union mayor pro-tem, Doug Moore, will hold the gavel when the town council holds its July meeting next week at the Town Hall.  In Tuesday’s 6 o’clock meeting, the council will consider what, if anything, to do about a water customer’s high bill.

The world pandemic has taken 140 Oconee County lives.  The state health agency is giving the 140 number as the number of Oconee County deaths reported due to COVID-19.  

Seneca’s cross-trained fire fighters have become acquainted with a new Prisma Health helicopter that is being used to fly patients to the care they require.  The Seneca Fire Department is one of many that take responsibility to arrange landings and take-offs of medical helicopters from designated landing zones in the Seneca area.  Sometimes, however, circumstances dictate creating landing zones where […]

The City of Walhalla Water Department advises the residents of the Walhalla Water System, located in Oconee County that they no longer need to boil their water prior to drinking or cooking. Following an intense flushing of the distribution system, bacteriological samples were collected and analyzed by the City of Walhalla Water Department. The results of this sampling indicate that […]

A traffic stop Wednesday evening at Townville is credited with leading to the arrests of three men and confiscation of drugs weighing 23.6 grams.  The arrests by an Oconee deputy resulted from a vehicle that pulled into an address on Townville’s Rachel Drive.  Three Townville men are charged with trafficking in methamphetamine:  19-year old Christopher Jacob Barrett; 41-year old Joshua […]

The federal government approves of Duke Energy’s plan for checking the condition of its Keowee Dam.  “FERC”—the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission—reviewed Duke’s plan to de-water the power tunnel of the Keowee Dam.  Two days of what’s called routine maintenance are to start Tuesday, July 20.  Typically, such a de-watering process allows divers to inspect parts of a dam that sit […]

Oconee Sheriff’s Office has posted an alert for a pickup truck stolen last week from the grounds of a housing complex that accommodates university students near Clemson.  The theft of a black 2017 GMC Denali was reported Friday afternoon, July 2 from a parking spot on Bufflehead Way at The View at the Pier apartment complex.  It’s believed the pickup […]

New cases statewide:  119, including two in Oconee. One new death (an elderly Greenville County resident) Of 2,891 test results received, the South Carolina positivity was 5.8%.  These numbers reflect the 24-hour data available to DHEC by the end of the day Tuesday.