Author: Dick Mangrum

According to South Carolina DHEC, the running total of Oconee County cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic counting began is now 904.  In the past two weeks, the health agency counted 115 cases.  Yesterday one dozen county cases were reported.  As the Oconee superintendent of education stressed earlier this week, the county remains in a level of moderate incidence.  That’s […]

A non-profit says it can offer immediate relief to South Carolinians struggling to pay rent during the pandemic.  SC Thrive is accepting rental assistance applications from households that previously collected Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA).  Previously, the program was not available to renters who also received the now-expired $600 weekly benefit.  But now eligible households can receive up to $1,500 for […]

A tractor-trailer accident this morning on I-85 at the 6 mile marker has closed the interstate for northbound traffic.  And, within the last moments, a report from Fair Play Volunteer Fire Department indicates uncertainty over how long a section of 85 will be closed.  Northbound motorists are meeting the detour at the 4 mile marker.  We’ve heard from one motorist […]

The Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) confirmed that a bat found near Townville on Smith Farm Road and Crick Hill Road has tested positive for rabies. One pet was potentially exposed and will be quarantined as required in the South Carolina Rabies Control Act. The bat was submitted to DHEC’s laboratory for testing Monday and was confirmed to […]

The coroner has announced the death of Wayne Roger Glenn in this morning’s home fire at 103 Pleasant Drive, Seneca.  Mr. Glenn was 70.

On a rainy night, a tree fell across Oak Hill Drive near the Seneca area’s E. Reedy Fork Road.  A driver negotiating a curve on Oak Hill Drive could not avoid the striking tree, but initial reports there were no injuries.

Part of I-85 northbound in Anderson County is blocked to traffic this morning as the result of an accident which state patrol is investigating at or near mile markers 5 and 6.  Oconee’s Fair Play Volunteer Fire Department is assisting authorities there in handling the situation.

    101.7/WGOG NEWS has learned that the coroner, the city police, and the state police are at the scene this morning of a home fire on the outskirts of Seneca.  The home fire was reported at 1:40 this morning on Pleasant Drive near Overbook Drive.

The number of first-time claims from South Carolinians for unemployment insurance shows an uptick for the week ended August 15, but the state’s top eye for jobless numbers says from available information to his employees, there’s no significant single event that accounts for the increase (an increase of 1,334).   Dan Ellzey included his comment in the report that  became available […]