Author: Dick Mangrum

History will be re-told next week in Walhalla during a free, online program highlighting the centennial of the 19th amendment which allowed women the right to vote.  The program will run 7 to 8 o’clock Wednesday night, August 26–the official 100th anniversary that the amendment became part of the U-S Constitution. For details on how you can join the Zoom […]

A car left an Oconee County country road and hit a tree.  From last evening’s accident inside the Picket Post/Camp Oak Volunteer Fire Department territory, the driver was flown by helicopter for medical treatment.  The accident occurred on the Jumping Branch Road.

Fire broke out last night in an abandoned mobile home near the city limits of Seneca.  The fire was reported shortly after 9:30 in an abandoned mobile in the B-and-B Trailer Park near Utica.

Oconee County COVID-19 cases have dropped over the last week, but deaths have jumped.  And Walhalla City Council decided last night it’s time for action.  The city council voted to enact an ordinance to require everyone within the corporate limits to wear masks while in public spaces, in buildings, and where social distancing can’t be achieved.  According to Mayor Edwards, […]

Anyone working in or visiting an Oconee government building during the next 61 days will be required to wear a face mask unless they are exempt for medical or religious reasons.   Using an emergency provision allowing ordinances to be passed on only one reading the Oconee County Council on Tuesday enacted the emergency ordinance in an effort to help […]

New restrictions face advertisers looking to place billboards or signs along the roads in the unincorporated parts of Oconee County.   By a 3-2 vote Tuesday the Oconee County Council passed an ordinance on third reading that limits the size and spacing of billboards and signs along roads and outright prohibits new billboards along designated local, state and federal scenic […]

A lender has begun foreclosure proceedings against a pair of university student housing projects in Oconee County.  Court documents filed for U-S Bank National Association name the High Pointe and the Pier housing projects as defendants.  At issue in the documents is a promissory note of a loan amount of $33.5 million dollars.  The foreclosure pleadings allege that the borrower […]

DHEC today announced 691 new confirmed cases and 15 new probable cases of the novel coronavirus COVID-19, 47 additional confirmed deaths and 10 new probable deaths.  DHEC today reported an elderly Oconeean’s death on August 13 and considers another Oconee patient as a “probable death.”  Both individuals are elderly. This brings the total number of confirmed cases to 106,574, probable cases to 1,098, confirmed deaths […]

As schools and universities across the state begin the school year, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) reminds parents how essential routine vaccinations are in light of the COVID-19 pandemic that has affected routine clinical care. Children need to be up to date on the vaccines outlined in the South Carolina Immunization Requirements for Childcare and School before […]