Author: Dick Mangrum

Walhalla’s Wayne Garland is doing exactly what health authorities suggest that vaccinated Americans do this upcoming holiday weekend.  He’s getting a lot of fresh air, courtesy of his long trek on the Appalachian Trail.  Garland, an avid hiker, is hoping that during the Memorial Day weekend he’ll be departing New Jersey and entering New York state.  Garland’s hike of the […]

It’s the hope of local law enforcement that the long holiday weekend will be a time of safe and family fun, but keeping in mind the need to avoid unlawful behavior.  Much of outdoor Oconee County activity takes place in and around the lakes.  The following law agencies and organizations urge everyone to avoid the kinds of unlawful conduct that […]

The police in Westminster say charges have been filed the result of an accident last night when a vehicle left Bermuda Street and hit a house causing injuries.  Chief Jones says Matthew Price, 53-year old Westminster resident, has been charged with hit-and-run and too fast for conditions.

Anderson County authorities say a 17-year old was killed around 9 last night in the crash of his mini-bike on the Airline Road, about three miles south of the city of Anderson.  Jervion Lee Mackey was pronounced dead at the scene due to multiple traumatic injuries that coroner’s office says were secondary to blunt force trauma.  According to the coroner’s […]

The police chief in Westminster, Rory Jones, says, “I can confirm at this time, we did have a vehicle hit a house on Bermuda Street last night.”  There are reports that, at least at first, the police could not locate the driver and a search was begun in that Westminster neighborhood.

Following special training tomorrow, it’s the hope that the Oconee County Animal Shelter will be able to conduct its business in an improved manner.  What’s called Deflection Style Training is scheduled tomorrow at the Sandifer Boulevard facility and, as a result, the shelter will be closed to the public from 9 am to 1 pm to allow the animal control […]

An early morning accident involving a deer and a pickup truck near Walhalla on SC 183/the Walhalla-Westminster Highway.  The damaged pickup has been left temporarily in the parking lot of WGOG.

Police and ambulances responded to a Westminster neighborhood last night after reports of an out of control vehicle crashing into a home on Bermuda Street.  According to what 101.7/WGOG NEWS learned, the police were looking for the driver.  Yesterday afternoon in Walhalla there was a large police response to reports of an incident at or near a highway 28/Blue Ridge […]

The Oconee Sheriff wants the state police to investigate a fight early today between two Oconee County inmates.  No jail guards were hurt, but Capt. Chapman’s preliminary investigation indicates that it was an altercation between two inmates inside a jail cell, and one of them was hurt enough to be sent by EMS to the hospital.  Having the South Carolina […]