Author: Dick Mangrum

Jack Collins roadside signs have shown up in a section of western Oconee.  The photograph of one depicts the message, “Vote Conservative Write In Jack Collins County Council District 4 sponsored by Conservative Choice Advocates of Oconee County.”  In this year’s primary, Collins lost a close challenge to incumbent Julian Davis, who enters the November election as the only ballot […]

About eight out of ten Oconee public school children have returned to in-class instruction so far in the academic year.  That number could change in the weeks ahead, as the superintendent of education announces parents will get the chance to switch their children from distance learning to class instruction …. or from in-class to distance.  A survey will go out […]

On occasion, 101.7/WGOG NEWS encounters those who do not believe masks are making a difference when it comes to the spread of COVID-19.  And a concerned listener has posed an interesting question for which, unfortunately, the Oconee public schools can’t satisfy.  He wants to know in the aftermath of a positive case detected in the schools — and the quarantine […]

Newsweek magazine is out with a poll that shows Democrat Jaime Harrison slightly behind Republican incumbent Lindsey Graham for South Carolina U-S senate.  The magazine cites the Cook Report and says the 48%-42% advantage three weeks until election is the widest lead for Graham has enjoyed over his challenger in months.  The poll is based on how voters would vote […]

An even 700 new South Carolina cases of that virus that is staying with us like one of the worst houseguests imaginable, today’s state COVID-19 numbers are showing us.  The South Carolina death toll has risen over 24 hours by 17 people.  None shows an Oconee address; however, the eight new virus cases have been confirmed among county residents.  Results […]

No longer do two massive cranes dot the skyline on Seneca’s Wells Highway on the grounds of the Borg Warner plant.  Area residents noticed the cranes were removed by large trucks.  Those cranes were part of the massive re-build of the car parts plant, hit hard by the April 13 tornado.  And, as such, the work they did was instrumental […]

A transplanted Californian has been accorded Fire Fighter of the Year in Seneca.  He has an unusual name (Dash Lucero), but the quality of his work is anything but run of the norm.  His boss, Chief Caudill, says, “I’d take 10 men just like him.”  Lucero was applauded and awarded during last night’s city council meeting.  Besides his business-like approach […]

Tri-County Technical College at Pendleton has new federal money to spend to help students with child care issues.  A grant of more than $378 thousand has arrived and is to be spent to help low income students by giving them access to affordable and flexible child care.  In Oconee, Anderson and Pickens, Tech serves more than nine thousand students a […]