Author: Dick Mangrum

An appeal to the Seneca zoning law will be made during a City Hall hearing at 6 tonight.  The board of appeals gathers to hear the request by Integrity Builders on behalf of property owners Clifton and Lisa Henry.

Five Seneca High student COVID cases are on the school district’s virus tracking page for yesterday, And the Seneca High principal, Felicia LeRoy, says, “We have been working to identify the ‘center’ of the cluster so we can move any student to virtual learning who may have been exposed.”  The current outbreak at the high school has interrupted instruction and […]

Across Upstate South Carolina there is a critical need for persons to donate blood, according to the Blood Connection.  All eligible donors are being asked to step up for their community.  The Blood Connection is the exclusive provider for all Upstate hospitals, include Prisma’s Oconee Memorial.  You are asked to remember that hundreds of people each day in our area […]

At least two items apparently will face Westminster’s elected leaders during an executive session planned at 5:30 this evening in the conference room at City Hall.  According to Mayor Brian Ramey, Councilman Danny Duncan has added the controversial Hall Street property purchase to the agenda and there could be a vote afterward. A second purpose for the meeting is a […]

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 […]