Author: Dick Mangrum

The percentage of positive COVID-19 cases from 14 thousand test results received by the end of Wednesday this week had dropped to 3.2% in South Carolina.  New cases of the virus statewide were 337.  Eight of those in Oconee County.  The names of four South Carolinians were added to the death toll, including that of a middle-aged Anderson County resident.

Here is a statement this afternoon from South Carolina DHEC: “The Director of the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, Dr. Edward Simmer, released the following statement today concerning new mask guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): “DHEC has reviewed the science behind the CDC’s recent mask guidelines, and we concur. South Carolinians who […]

An agenda has been set for a public meeting on Monday night in Walhalla, where city officials will accept comments and questions about their temporary moratorium that forbids additional box and discount stores from locating inside the city.  The topic became a matter of controversy when objections were raised about Dollar General’s attempts of recent months to find property on […]

After being stymied by the breakout of COVID-19, a group concerned with food security for Oconee County is re-forming and hopes to pick up momentum  The county’s Agricultural Advisory Board learned last night that the Oconee Food Council can benefit from its blessing and support when the committee makes a financial pitch to the county council.  Agriculturist Gwen McPhail, a […]

Here’s some of what’s awaiting Oconee County fathers when they sit down for their regular third Tuesday meeting of the month next week.  The county council is to receive a presentation by Chase Kuhlman, coordinator of the Walhalla Municipal Swimming Pool.  Part of Tuesday night’s meeting will be devoted to a public hearing on an ordinance to repeal 2021-14 which […]

The Colonial Pipeline says the entire pipeline is back running, but the return to full service comes too late for a popular northeast Georgia restaurant.  Catfish and other menu items won’t be served at Booty’s Fish House.  The Royston restaurant is closed for the weekend and blames the shortage of food deliveries on the gas crunch.

Near Pickens yesterday, a car left Wolf Creek Road, overturned and burst into flames and there were multiple explosions.  The Pickens County Sheriff’s Office quotes Jessica Dale Patterson, the driver, as saying her Pontiac G6 transported containers of fuel that she hoarded in the car trunk.  And these several containers of fuel, says the sheriff’s office, were the catalyst for […]

A 27-year old Oconee man has been charged with sexually assaulting five adults in incidents alleged to have occurred as late as last month and as long ago as the year 2018.  The sheriff’s office announced the arrest yesterday of Trey Jerell Frasier of Greenleaf Court, not far from the Davis Creek Road.  The following charges have been laid against […]

The state police report the arrests of two former detention center officers in Anderson County in an investigation of the death of an inmate.  Milton Brady Wilson, 28, and Chancelor Stephen Lee Saxton, 26, were each charged with involuntary manslaughter and misconduct in office, according to the state Law Enforcement Division.  Arrest warrants disclosed by SLED identify the victim as […]