Author: Dick Mangrum

BASF Corporation, a leading supplier of environmental and process catalysts, today announced plans to expand operations in Oconee County. The expansion will create 50 new jobs. BASF Corporation’s Oconee County site is a specialty chemical catalyst manufacturing operation. The company uses a refinery process to recycle spent catalysts and produce solutions that are used to manufacture herbicides, plastics, pharmaceuticals, auto-emission […]

A reminder to drivers from the state patrol on this soggy Wednesday. If your wipers are on, your headlights must be on.  It’s state law says Trooper Joe Hovis.

The makers of a new movie have chosen Carnesville, Georgia to film scenes for a movie tentatively called “Lumps.”  The plot involves a young man whose mother is behind bars and how he deals with that and, at the same time, growing up.  Dwight Dyer, a scout for movie locations in Georgia, said a bus scene is to be filmed […]

Danny Duncan of Westminster spent his working career in the field of electric power service.  But his career with the Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative makes him ineligible to represent his city on the board of PMPA—the Piedmont Municipal Power Authority. Westminster is a member city of PMPA, from which it receives its wholesale supply of electricity. Councilman Duncan had been […]

Some of Westminster’s best known individuals in recreation circles were named last night to a committee to kick start the process to develop Hall Road property into a recreation complex.  And that committee features no elected officials, which Councilman Reid Adams sees as a good thing.  Adams vowed, “We’ll keep the politics out of it” – which is seen as […]

Westminster’s proposed budget, with an overall total of nearly $11.5 million, received first reading last night with a unanimous vote of the city council.  There are no property taxes or electric power increases projected, however the city administrator highlighted three separate rate increases, after a new resident from the audience questioned why the city intends to raise its retail sewer […]

Announcement is scheduled this morning of expansion plans for the BASF manufacturing plant in the Reedy Fork Community near Seneca, 101.7/WGOG NEWS has learned.  What had been code-named “Urban Mine”, according to the state Commerce Department, will mean an additional 50 jobs at BASF.  The official announcement is timed for 9 o’clock this morning.

Food will be given away during a one-hour period this afternoon in Walhalla.  The distribution at the St. Luke United Methodist Church will be 4:30 to 5:30 this afternoon.  In Westminster yesterday, the giveaway of food boxes was slower than normal, according to one of the distributors.  However, all food was handed out after three hours’ time.

A 25-year old West Union man, identified by the police as the suspect in two shootings in Westminster, has been found dead in the city of Anderson.  The Anderson County coroner, Greg Shore, says Noah Elijah Cleveland died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound and the death has been ruled a suicide. Cleveland’s death is also being investigated by the Anderson city […]