Author: Dick Mangrum

As COVID-19 numbers continue their slide, you no longer are required to cover your face in Oconee County government offices and buildings and in other county facilities.  An ordinance that required face coverings was repealed last night, with an amendment by John Elliott, the council chairman, to lift the mandate effective today.

The only municipal-owned swimming pool in Oconee County will welcome swimmers on Saturday and maintain weekend hours until Memorial Day, when it will switch to its traditional daily schedule of swimming, swim lessons, and other aquatic events.  The Walhalla Pool on W. Main Street is operated for the city by the Foothills YMCA.  Last night the city council presented a […]

A late night shooting in Pendleton left a 71-year old man dead from a gunshot wound to the chest.  The Anderson County coroner, Greg Shore, says just before 11 o’clock, the body of Hack Sulliven Sr. was found on the porch of his home at 364 Thompson Street.  According to the coroner, Sulliven had been in an altercation with a […]

On today’s report from DHEC:  112 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in South Carolina, including four from Oconee County. The death toll increased by two people, with the deaths of individuals in Lee and Edgefield counties.  Of 5,602 test results, the South Carolina positivity was 3.7%.  These numbers reflect data effective for the 24-hour count that ended at 11:59 Sunday […]

Students of Seneca High enrolled in their school’s chorale programs have once again been rated superior.  In every appearance in the state choral performance assessment, formerly known as state festival, Seneca’s Honors Women’s Chorus, the Honors Chorale, and the Madrigals have earned superior ratings from the judges.

Everyone interested in law and order is invited tomorrow to the Walhalla community meeting, where Chief Brinson and his staff will be in attendance.  Special emphasis will be on internet crime and how you can protect yourself.  Capt. Rice will make a special presentation.  The meeting takes place at 6 tomorrow night in the Walhalla Performing Arts Center (formerly the […]

During a plant tour at Mauldin, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham declared the country won’t get a $2 trillion infrastructure plan touted by the Biden administration.  But South Carolina’s senior U-S senator predicted agreement can be had on an $800 to $900 billion package that’ll be “meat and potatoes” — meaning roads, bridges, and ports.  Graham added if such a deal […]

The 40-volunteer strong Walhalla Main Street organization recommends city government hire a professional planner to guide the future for Main Street.  At the same time the group, headed by event planner Libby Imbody, is urging the mayor and council to extend the six-month moratorium against “box” or discount stores to allow more time for deliberations on what’s allowed and what’s […]

Traffic southbound late yesterday afternoon on I-85 slowed down in Oconee County, in advance of roadwork in progress across the state line in Georgia.  As far back as exit 4, according to Fair Play Fire Department, a tractor-trailer truck hit one vehicle and pushed it into two others.  Chief Larry Wilkerson says a mother and a child were transported by […]