Author: Dick Mangrum

You can’t miss it, especially when the wind blows. City of Seneca has erected a large American flag that flies over the industrial park off the Shiloh Road, adjoining Utica community.  According to Scott Moulder, city administrator, the city found enough money in its property improvement fund to pay for the flag that stretches 100’ high, a 40 X 60 […]

According to the state Department of Revenue, its agents arrested the owner of Hilton Head Island bar and restaurant today and charged him with one count of operating without a retail license and three counts of failing to file tax returns or pay taxes, or both.  Warrants allege Timothy Singleton’s retail license was revoked two years ago for failure to […]

Late in the first half the Bobcats trail Marlboro County 25-16, in the playoff final for the state basketball championship.  You can catch the action live on WSNW 94.1 The Lake.

Ahead for Walhalla voters this year are two elections, including the special election next month.  On April 13 city voters are to fill a council term that has only months remaining.  The ballot candidates are Gwen Owens and Christy Marlow.  Whoever wins that election will be faced with whether to run for a full, four-year term in November.  The November […]

An e-library card is available for Oconee high age students, 14-17, and requires no parent or guardian signature.  Advantage of the card is that e-books and audio books and other such materials do not run up fines.  A student who obtains such a card has the later option of converting the card to one that offers full privileges.  Just like […]

The death of an Oconee County resident on Monday is considered by DHEC to have been a probable COVID-19 case, according to the state health agency report issued this afternoon. In the latest 24-hour period, there were 819 new virus cases across the state, including 18 in Oconee.  There were 38 new deaths reported in South Carolina.  Of 21,020 total […]

Senator Tim Scott is out with a video in which he lays out his opposition to Xavier Becerra to be the next U-S health secretary. President Biden’s nominee has come under questions about his objectives, and South Carolina Republican Scott accuses Becerra, the California attorney general, of attacking the constitutional rights of law-abiding gun owners and pushing policies that undermine […]

The largest animal ever to have made its home in the Oconee County shelter near Seneca is to get a new home thru a New York state-based rescue group.  Farewells will be made today for “Mack”, a two-year old resident of the Oconee Animal Shelter on the Sandifer Boulevard.  Mack thinks he is a dog, but he’s 1-thousand-plus pound Jersey […]

Threatened and endangered plant species, along with fuels reduction, are the reasons for today’s U-S Forest Service prescribed 650-acre burn in Oconee County, of the Cedar Creek and Rich Mountain roads.  The expectations are that smoke might be visible from a distance, but the impacts will be limited because of good dispersion.