Author: Dick Mangrum

The cross-trained personnel of the Walhalla Fire Department were on the go Sunday afternoon to attend to a hiker at Yellow Branch Falls, highway 28, north of the city.  On the trail leading to the falls, a hiker injured an ankle or knee and received assistance.  Apparently was not major.

Ingle’s is not only a supermarket for buying groceries.  Through the Ingle’s supermarket chain, you can reserve an appointment for a COVID vaccine.  Listeners  are telling us they’ve been able to go thru Ingle’s by keying in the address Ingles-Markets.com.  “Once there,” as one of our listeners says, “it is easy.”

Toccoa, Georgia Radio WNEG reports that the Atlanta Humane Society swooped into Stephens County and seized more than 30 dogs from their owner, animals that had been exposed to the elements in two sheds and a trailer.  The Stephens County Marshal’s Office opted against filing charges against the property owner.  According to the humane society, most were adult dogs, had […]

A total of 2,946 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 are on today’s report from South Carolina DHEC.  The new case number includes 41 Oconee County cases.  Statewide, there were eight deaths.  Of 12,806 test results received statewide, the positivity was 23%.

The state’s acting health director, Dr. Brannon Traxler, joined a growing chorus of others from across the country in lamenting the slow rollout of the vaccine to protect against the virus.  In this afternoon’s briefing to South Carolina media, Dr. Traxler said the distribution, so far, is “just not sufficient.” Nevertheless, Traxler urges all South Carolinians in phase 1a to […]

It’s Martin Luther King Day today across the country.  In Walhalla, the city’s new Diversity and Inclusion Task Force helped observe the holiday with a proclamation, signed by Mayor Edwards, that notes that the King Holiday is the only federal holiday commemorated as a national day of service and offers Americans a chance to give back to their communities.  Walhalla’s […]

The toll of dead from COVID-19 across South Carolina (and in Oconee) remains on the rise, as evidenced by yesterday’s report from the state health agency.  The DHEC numbers reported on Sunday showed 76 new COVID deaths across the state.  They included two elderly Oconeeans– one on January 14 and the other, January 15.  The death of an additional Oconeean […]

The state police have announced the arrest of a 58-year old Easley man charged with the crime of possession of an explosive device.  David Scott Halsey is accused of possessing a device that had been configured to cause damage, injury, or death, according to law enforcement documents.  The Halsey arrest announcement states that “SLED”, the Easley police, and the Pickens […]