Author: Dick Mangrum

Word is spreading thru Walhalla that one of the city’s stately homes has changed hands for what appears to be a record-high amount for a house sale inside the county seat.  It’s the large home that sits on E. Main and S. John streets, listed by Clardy Real Estate’s Alicia Keys.  It went for $515 thousand, says Keys, and went […]

Northwestern Oconee County is included in the National Weather Service flash flood warning in effect today until 3 o’clock this afternoon.  Rain is pelting all of Oconee County today.  In the northwest tip, however, conditions are in place for flooding.  The Lake Burton area of Rabun County, Georgia could get as much as three or four inches.  The impact could […]

Project Rise” is a code-named Oconee County economic development prospect which, if realized, would locate within Seneca’s utility service area.  Last night the mayor and council approved a deal with the Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative for a utility tax credit for the project.  Because Project Rise is being recruited by the county, city administrator Scott Moulder said he won’t identify […]

Scott Moulder, Seneca city administrator, dropped strong hints last night that, as the city absorbs an anticipated treatment charge from county sewer, the city might pass on at least part of that increase to its customers.  However, at this point, everything is at the anticipation stage as both the city and the county’s Joint Regional Sewer Authority have yet to […]

Seneca’s elected leaders sought last night to arrive at a fair and equitable policy on the rental of city facilities.  In question was whether the mayor and council would be willing to waive a second time its $1,400 rental charge to the Oconee Republicans who wish to use Gignilliat Community Center for their April 10 county convention.  Scott Moulder, city […]

New cases statewide:  344 (nine in Oconee) Statewide:  four new deaths Of 9,233 test results, the South Carolina positivity:  5.7%.

A traffic violation early Sunday raised the suspicions of a county deputy on U-S 123 in Oconee County. After learning that the Dodge pickup truck was registered as a Honda, the deputy investigated further and discovered two loaded weapons, narcotics and an open container of alcohol.  The weaponry was identified as a pistol and a shotgun.  The following charges were […]

Lake Hartwell with its array of habitat and abundant largemouth and spotted bass will be the body of fishing waters for next year’s Bassmaster Classic.  The dates will be March 4-6, 2022, with take offs from Green Pond Landing and Event Center and daily weigh-ins at the Bon Secours Wellness Arena.  This will be the 4th time  that the tournament […]

A 20-year old man near Walhalla was jailed on the charge of fugitive from justice.  Announcement by the Oconee Sheriff’s Office of the arrest of Mark Roy Paul Groscope of the Coffee Road stated that he was jailed late last night and transferred this morning to the custody of the Rabun County, Georgia Sheriff’s Office.  According to a fugitive warrant […]