Author: Dick Mangrum

  Greenville’s version of a big dig was celebrated yesterday as invited guests, small numbers at a time, loaded onto a crane and were transported 120 feet down for a tour of the newly-completed tunnel.  Renewable Water Resources completed a wastewater conveyance designed to revitalize the city’s wastewater infra-structure by adding capacity for the future.  Workers spent nine months drilling […]

  A new supply of drinking water for Walhalla customers is nearly at hand.  Scott Parris, the utilities superintendent, last night announced that the city’s new treatment plant near Lake Keowee will undergo test runs and an operating permit from the state is close.  Once the plant is running for good, the city will switch its treatment of raw water […]

For now, the idea of an ordinance that would give Walhalla’s elected leaders the authority to order curfews is off the table.  In the opinion of at least one councilman, the entire idea should be re-thought.  In the aftermath of about one week of civil unrest on Main Street, Last night Councilman Danny Woodward, chairman of the public safety committee, […]

In the view of the Walhalla mayor, the time could be right for his city to recruit a new supermarket.  That possibility arose last night as the city council discussed changes in its business license fees.  Mayor Edwards made reference to the shaping up of a sizable piece of property at the edge of the city limits as a possibility […]

The spokesman for the Oconee Sheriff’s Office has confirmed the charge of prostitution appears on a ticket issued to a 71-year old woman at Fair Play.  The accused is Sun Cha So Aldrich of Moore, Oklahoma.  According to a sheriff’s incident report, Aldrich was ticketed as the result of an undercover operation by the sheriff’s office narcotics unit Monday at […]

Here are South Carolina DHEC numbers in today’s report that tracks the spread of COVID-19.  New cases:  693; additional deaths:  17.  Also, 17 additional Oconee cases; but no new deaths from the county.  Since the count started, the number of confirmed virus cases in the state has reached 147,800; the death toll now 3.275.  Positivity test percentage was 12.9%.

This just off the press from the Oconee School District: “At a special called board meeting held on October 6th, the School District of Oconee County Board of Trustees voted to solicit applications to fill the current District I vacancy.  The Board will conduct interviews with qualified candidates before appointing someone to the position. Mr. Joe Rukat, acting chairman, said, […]

The policy-making board for the Oconee Joint Regional Sewer Authority has directed its executive director to pass on information to attorneys involving a matter of alleged violation issued by South Carolina DHEC.  Earlier this year the board gave Chris Eleazer, executive director, authority to work out an agreement with a law firm for representation.  There was executive session discussion yesterday […]

The state police and the Pickens Sheriff’s Office are investigating the death yesterday of a 14-year old child in the rural Sunset Community.  Coroner Kandy Kelley says Isaiah Oertel died around 6:30 of blunt force trauma in a fall at the Laurel Fork Falls.  The falls measures some 80 feet and apparently there are two ways to reach the falls:  […]

  The bag of an Oconee mail carrier is likely to have gotten heavier in the last day or two.  Over the weekend, the county elections office put in the mail around six thousand ballots to be filled out and returned to the office in time to be counted for the November General Election.  According to Ryan Nowland, assistant elections […]