Author: Dick Mangrum

In the estimation of reporters, the feeling in places such as Walhalla and Myrtle Beach is that with dropping case numbers the wearing of facial coverings may not be as important as before.  Phooey says the state’s epidemiologist.  Dr. Linda Bell, responding to a question yesterday by a Myrtle Beach TV reporter, said case numbers will re-surge if people stop […]

The South Carolina lieutenant governor, Pamela Evette, has contracted COVID-19.  In a tweet yesterday, she announced that she began to feel unwell Thursday and immediately self-quarantined.  Her test came back positive, but she reports minor symptoms only.  Evette, 53, recommends tests for anyone showing symptoms.  CDC has updated the clinical symptoms for diagnosing the virus.  New symptoms added are nausea, […]

Progress reported today on a project to demolish a former Seneca school building and convert the property to green space recreation.  Scott Moulder, city administrator, told 101.7/WGOG NEWS this afternoon, “We have finally cleared the environmental review process through the S.C. Department of Commerce.  I received my letter today as a matter of fact.”  Moulder sees this as final clearance […]

  South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) announced 525 new confirmed cases of the  coronavirus COVID-19 and 7 additional confirmed deaths.  Nine new Oconee County cases are reported. This brings the total number of SC confirmed cases to 130,256 and confirmed deaths to 2,922. The total number of individual test results reported to DHEC yesterday statewide was 5,357 (not […]

What Oconee schools call a small cluster of COVID cases will require the 8th grade at Seneca Middle School to move from face-to-face learning to distance learning for 14 days starting tomorrow.  Unless under quarantine for another reason, they are to return to face-to-face Tuesday, September 29.  According to the school district, meantime no Seneca 8th graders are allowed in […]

Sheriff’s deputy Buddy Joe Duncan Jr. has been released from the Prisma Health Oconee Memorial Hospital after his treatment for injuries from last evening’s accident on the Sheep Farm Road near Seneca.  A second driver injured in the accident, Carrie Leighanne Underwood, was jailed temporarily after also being treated.  Charged with driving under the influence, Underwood secured her release from […]

Cases of COVID-19 are being discovered and added incrementally to the list kept by the Oconee School District.  Since Friday the following cases are noted:  four students at Seneca Middle School, one student at Walhalla High, and one employee at West-Oak Middle School.

The larger the crowds, we’re told, the greater the chance for the spread of COVID-19, so it’s no longer a secret that the pandemic will likely prompt some urban residents to flock to the country.  Oconee County home sellers are aware of this potential market.  But those who re-locate often want to be assured that their new home will be […]

This is the week that Westminster officials are to confer with South Carolina DHEC about the nagging problem of infiltration in sewer lines.  But Mayor Brian Ramey says he doesn’t believe the city has anything to be overly worried about because his city has done most of what Health and Environmental Control has asked of it to keep the lines […]