Author: Dick Mangrum

On today’s DHEC report:  1,585 new confirmed COVID cases in South Carolina, 21 in Oconee County.  New deaths numbered 51, including an elderly Oconeean who died February 9 and a middle-aged Oconeean who died February 13. Of a total of 27,073 test results received, the latest South Carolina positivity is 8.7%.

Senator Lindsey Graham is making a visit to the southern border with Mexico, and doesn’t like what he sees.  In a briefing for South Carolina news media, Graham spoke late this morning from Tucson, Arizona.  At the border with Nogales, Mexico, Graham saw a hole in the wall which causes him concern.  Repeating that he favors legal immigration, Graham laments […]

The state patrol’s investigation of an early Wednesday night accident at Seneca involving a car and a hospital ambulance landed the car driver in jail, charged with three offenses.  State troopers are pursuing the following charges against Christopher Alan Glover after the small car driven by 28-year Glover collided with a Prisma Health ambulance at 123 and EN 1st Street:  […]

County councilmen Cain and Davis are promoting the idea of a new place for Utica residents to dispose of their trash.  A new convenience center in the Utica area is seen as a way to cut down considerably the four mile trips that Utica residents now have to make to either the Metromont or Strawberry Farm convenience centers. And Cain, […]

Members of Oconee County Council are speaking out today in favor of a stronger effort at traffic safety countywide, especially on 123 between Seneca and Clemson and on 130, the two-lane highway that parallels Lake Keowee and channels motorists between Seneca and the many lakeside destinations, including home developments and the Oconee Nuclear Station.  And District Four’s Julian Davis is […]

In many parts of the country, severe weather postponed or cancelled vaccinations, but providers in Houston, Texas are hopeful today of resuming some testing and vaccine operations. In Oconee this week, eligible members of the public rolled up sleeves for the vaccine at places such as the Prisma Oconee Memorial Hospital and the CVS drug store in Seneca.  One vaccine […]

South Carolina’s 3rd District representative in the U-S House, Jeff Duncan, told a Washington hearing that the electric grid instability in Texas is evidence that nuclear power plays a critical role in the quest for clean energy and reducing carbon emissions. “Nuclear energy provides a carbon-free, 24-7 baseload power supply,” Duncan said in comments to a subcommittee of House Energy […]

In today’s South Carolina DHEC report:  1,451 new confirmed COVID-19 cases in the state.  Thirty-eight are in Oconee County.  Statewide there were 32 new confirmed deaths.  Of a total of nearly 21,500 test results received in the state, the positivity was 10%.

Two Oconee County residents have been jailed in Walhalla, after being held by Jackson County, North Carolina authorities.  All of this resulting from warrants issued in Georgia, a subsequent car chase February 2 on highway 11 which eventually ended in the North Carolina mountains.  The two incarcerated have been identified as Amy Denise Fleming of Westminster and Artis O’Neal Wright […]

Ever since the pandemic, the volume of trash handled by Oconee Solid Waste has risen substantially.  This week Swain Still, the director, ascribed two factor for this:  One is the fact that, because the virus has confined many to home, county residents have done a lot of house and yard cleaning, and thus send more waste to the convenience center; […]