Author: Dick Mangrum

The work being done by the Oconee County administrator is considered to be “excellent”, in the estimation of her employers.  And last night the county council rewarded Amanda Brock a $5 thousand pay raise and took a further step to improve the efficiency of her office.  The council agreed to provide additional staff for Brock, but the exact number and […]

The gas pump/convenience store chain QT–Quick Trip–is about to open its Seneca location at the city’s East End intersection.  Word is the opening planned at 8 o’clock Thursday morning, January 28.

Power pole work by a contractor on behalf of the Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative will require 101.7/WGOG to leave the air for an approximate 2 and 1/2 to a 3-hour timeframe tomorrow afternoon.  That outage, affecting WGOG on-air programs, is temporary only and is scheduled to begin around the 1:30 time tomorrow afternoon.  We apologize to those who listen to […]

The treasury of Oconee County government has been buttressed by the single largest tax payment.  The Duke Energy Corporation has made good on its obligation to benefit both general county government and the public schools.  This time, for the 2020 property tax, Duke issued a check to the county treasury, in the amount of 35,771,953.91, according to Connie Bellotte, deputy […]

  South Carolina Department of Revenue (SCDOR) agents today arrested a Greenville County convenience store operator and charged him with three counts of tax evasion. Viraj Chitranjan Mehta, 37, of Greer, owner of a Greenville convenience store doing business as Harry’s Quick Stop, failed to report $836,927 in sales from 2016-2018, according to arrest warrants. As a result, the warrants […]

Crews are undertaking a prescribed burn today within in the Andrew Pickens Ranger District in Oconee.  A spokeswoman for the U-S Forest Service says reducing fuels for the potential of wildfire and enhancing wildlife habitat are the reasons for this prescribed burn of 400 acres at Jumping Branch and Lake Cherokee.

Adding to the running count kept by the state health agency today are 2,570 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 11 deaths across South Carolina.  The additional case number includes 37 from Oconee County.  Reported to DHEC were the test results statewide of 10,773, making for a positivity of 23.9%.

The corporate limits of Seneca are a cleaner place, courtesy of a public service project carried out yesterday by the Seneca police and members of the community.   The public service project was carried out to help mark Martin Luther King Day.  Casey Bowling, police chief, says around 100 bags of general trash were filled.  The litter patrol also removed discarded […]

IRS Criminal Investigation warns South Carolina taxpayers about new wave of COVID-19 scams as second round of Economic Impact Payments are delivered The Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation Division (IRS-CI) is warning South Carolina taxpayers about a new wave of COVID-19-related scams as the agency delivers the second round of Economic Impact Payments. In the last several months, IRS-CI has […]

If you think the snow that fell over the weekend in western North Carolina was something, you should take a trip to the European country of Switzerland.  In one small town there (Sulgen), the snow measured 19″.  We know this because of a former Oconee County couple who call Switzerland home has sent the snowy photographs, with the plea, “Could […]