Author: Dick Mangrum

A CATBus official says video cameras are now part of every bus in the system and they serve to deter crime and to help law enforcement solve crime.  CATBus’s Holly Brown says the police frequently contact the bus operations to look at video that helps them solve crime and investigate traffic accidents that occur within the vicinity of bus routes.  […]

Salem and Westminster are in line next week to receive financial assistance for water improvement projects, courtesy of coronavirus funds from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.  Oconee County Council has on its schedule Tuesday first reading of ordinance to provide $1.3 million to Westminster and $2 million to Salem.

If Oconee’s county councilmen agree next week, the rock quarry near Walhalla will be less of a dusty place.  The council is scheduled to address a staff recommendation to buy a $215 thousand dollar water truck, whose main purpose will be dust suppression throughout the quarry.  County staff is telling the council that a used 2014 Bell B30E Articulated Water […]

Lake Julian, Joy Scharich, and Karen Lee are leaving Oconee County government service for a new venture in their lives–retirement.  Julian, director of facilities; Scharich, director of registration and elections; and Lee, an associate probate judge are to be recognized with proclamations during next week’s meeting of county council.

In these parts the recent rains have soaked soils to the extent that the integrity of some trees are impacted, and they’ve begun to fall.  The Walhalla Fire Department is an example of Oconee County fire departments who’ve responded this week to downed trees across the roadways.  With the likelihood of more rain starting this afternoon, motorists–and pedestrians–should be on […]

Starting tomorrow, the Oconee Humane Society on the Sandifer Boulevard will discontinue its parking lot business location and welcome the public back inside, as the building will now accommodate visitors Monday through Friday from 10 to 5 and Saturday 10 to 2.  To mark this coming out of COVID event, there will be a party with snacks, sweet tea and […]

Around 10 o’clock this morning, 101.7/WGOG will leave the air to allow for a maintenance issue with our transmitter.  The station will be silent for about 30 minutes, but will return after that short period sounding as well or better than ever, according to our engineer.

The statewide committee that keeps a watch on the skies for rain clouds placed six counties yesterday on a list of incipient drought counties.  The six are all lower state:  Clarendon, Florence, Georgetown, Horry, Marion, and Williamsburg.  Incipient is the first level of drought, followed by moderate, severe, and extreme.  Upstate South Carolina is a different story as recent rains […]

Agents from the U-S Drug Enforcement Agency joined Oconee investigators as two pounds of methamphetamine were seized Monday at a home in southern Oconee County.  From that seizure, according to the sheriff’s office, Sarah Francine Deill was arrested and charged with trafficking in meth and possession with intent to distribute LSD.  One of two Deill’s addresses is the arrest scene, […]