Category: News

December 27, 2018 Dick Mangrum The Oconee County Board of Zoning Appeals will assemble in early 2019 to sit in judgment of a request involving a special exception requested by a Fair Play business. The board of appeals has set a public hearing for 6 o’clock Monday night, January 14 at the County Administrative Complex in Walhalla to hear application […]

December 27, 2018 Dick Mangrum It’s been a rainy fall and early winter, and the Army Corps of Engineers would like to avoid another winter rain event such as the one the region saw three years ago. That deluge between October and December 2015 prompted the corps to open the spillways at both Hartwell and Thurmond dams. The corps’ Jerry […]

December 27, 2018 Dick Mangrum Three cars collided this morning at a downtown Walhalla intersection, but the police say no one was hurt. The accident occurred shortly before 7:30 at Main and N. Catherine streets. Lt. Sean Brinson said at the scene everyone involved checked out to have no injuries and did not require a trip to the hospital.

December 27, 2018 Dick Mangrum South Carolina state parks plan to get 2019 started in a healthy and adventurous way. Thirty parks, including Devil’s Fork near Salem, will offer ranger-guided hikes, walks and special events Tuesday, January 1. At Devil’s Fork there will be a 5K run. Hikes are mostly walks along lakes and beaches, in forests or on historic […]

December 27, 2018 Dick Mangrum South Carolina has set late next month for a summit to help local communities spur economic development of Opportunity Zones. The community development program was established by Congress in 2017, and early this year Governor McMaster partnered with state and local leaders to announce 135 Opportunity Zones. They include census tracts in each of South […]

December 27, 2018 Dick Mangrum The outdoor warning sirens around the Oconee Nuclear Station will get a test shortly after the first of the New Year. Duke Energy announces the next three-minute test of the sirens is scheduled for approximately 11:50 Wednesday morning, January 9. The 65 sirens within ten miles of the plant are tested to ensure each siren […]

December 26, 2018 Dick Mangrum U-S Senator Tim Scott is a co-sponsor of a bill to strengthen the country’s workforce by filling skilled jobs through registered apprenticeship programs. There are now more than 20 thousand apprenticeship programs in the U-S and more than 150 thousand employers participating. But Scott, the South Carolina Republican, says this type of workforce training should […]

December 26, 2018 Dick Mangrum The Greenville Hospital System Police recovered a backpack and a large carry-on bag partially hidden along the walking track at the Oconee Memorial Hospital. The bags contained clothing. They were found Christmas Eve morning. After an unsuccessful try to locate the owner, the police placed the property in the hospital lost-and-found.

December 26, 2018 Dick Mangrum There’s a possibility that Walhalla City Council may be called into a special meeting tomorrow, at which there could be a vote on hiring a new police chief. But Mayor Danny Edwards this morning said he’s not sure if there will, in fact, be a called meeting and whether tomorrow will be the time for […]

December 26, 2018 Dick Mangrum Kenny Johns, the Oconee Probate Judge, has yet to record the final numbers of marriage licenses issued by his office in the year of 2018. But Johns suspects the numbers will bear out the notion that love was definitely in the air. His early guess is that he and his office staff issued between 600 […]