Author: Dick Mangrum

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 […]

A committee of the Joint Regional Sewer Authority will consider the acceptance of about 4,500 gallons of wastewater a day from a “potential development at 340 Union Station Drive” off 123 between Seneca and Clemson.  The request will be presented at 4 tomorrow by Chris Eleazer, JRSA director, during a meeting of the JRSA’s operating and planning committee.

David Freedman of Clemson University is testing coronavirus levels in wastewater on the University’s main campus and in the surrounding community to provide an early warning system that shows how fast the virus is spreading. Freedman likens the tests to the “canary in the coal mine” that can help administrators make informed decisions about what they need to do to protect […]

Duke Energy will begin its standard billing and payment practices in South Carolina in the coming weeks, keeping service disconnections for nonpayment of electric service suspended until October 2020. South Carolina customers who are experiencing financial hardship due to the COVID-19 pandemic now will have until October to pay previous balances to their accounts or make payment arrangements. Duke Energy […]

In this election cycle, a downtown Seneca building is being used as Oconee GOP headquarters.  But, following the November election, a corner building at E. Main and N. Townville will become available, and a member of the family that owns the building has been talking to potential suitors. And today 101.7/WGOG NEWS spoke to Richie Pierce, whose family owns the […]