Author: Dick Mangrum

  The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) today announced 704 new confirmed cases and 26 new probable cases of the novel coronavirus COVID-19, 17 additional confirmed deaths and one new probable death.  In today’s report there was only one new case reported from Oconee and no additional county deaths. This brings the total number of confirmed cases to 107,274, probable cases […]

A Walhalla man has been arrested and charged with 15 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor – 3rd degree.  Barry Dean Neal was jailed yesterday and, according to the sheriff’s office, if he is released before trial he will be required to wear an electronic monitoring device. Investigators executed a search warrant yesterday at the home of the 36-year […]

Contrary to word that spread yesterday, Stacy Jackson says a decision on whether to hold or cancel this year’s Walhalla Oktoberfest is not final.  Jackson is part of the 13-member Oktoberfest Committee that will meet Sunday to make the decision.

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 […]