Oconee News

A Comer man was killed Thursday when his car ran into a wandering horse on U.S. Highway 129 near Gainesville about half an hour before sunrise.

A teenager already facing murder charges in the deaths of two North Carolina college students has been indicted in a separate burglary case.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution announced plans Wednesday to reduce its full-time news staff by 30 percent, or about 90 employees, and discontinue circulation in Barrow, Clarke, Oconee and four other Georgia counties.

An Athens man avoided a death penalty trial when he accepted a plea deal this morning in the stabbing death of an Athens man four years ago during a robbery at the victim's home in southeastern Clarke County.

Federal prosecutors will seek the death penalty against a man charged with killing Athens native Eve Carson.

Fireworks explode in the skies over Lake Sinclair Saturday evening. Hundreds of boaters stopped on the lake for a few hours as lakeside residents and businesses lit the fuses of fireworks along the shores and docks of Lakes Sinclair and Oconee to celebrate the Fourth of July holiday in 2009.

Erwin, Hazel Christine Madden, 83, of Winterville; 2:30 p.m. graveside at Athens Memory Gardens; Lord & Stephens, EAST, Athens, has charge of arrangements.

All county non-emergency departments will be closed in observance of Independence Day.

Breakfast will be served followed by speaker Teresa Ivey-Moody and Schnavia Broson.

Members of the community and representatives from area businesses mingle at the monthly Milledgeville-Baldwin County Chamber of Commerce 'Business After Hours' event held last week at Burns-Gore Realty.

The Baldwin County Recreational Department pool at Walter B. Williams Park has become a more popular location for locals lately as summer temperatures blast the Central Georgia area with 90 to 100 degree heat and a heat index above 100 on an almost daily basis.

452-1444 Noon: Milledgeville Exchange Club meets at the Milledgeville Country Club.

After seven months, Convenient Care is still growing in patient numbers. The medical facility is available for community medical concerns, care, treatment.

Jack Minchey 473-0431. Noon: Milledgeville Exchange Club meets at the Milledgeville Country Club.

Milledgeville Police Department - Fraud A woman reported that she works for the Oconee Regional Hospital Credit Union and saw on a statement that someone had been using a credit card that is intended only for business use.

For more information, contact Anne Moore at 452-0677 ext 29. 7 p.m.: Allied Arts will present "Summer Celebration" featuring jazz vocalist and trumpeter Joe Gransden at Grant Parade.

Women's fashion retailer Chico's plans to expand its Barrow County distribution center yet again, investing $15 million to buy the closed Hagemeyer facility in a move that will create up to 250 jobs in the next three years.

For more information, contact Anne Moore at 452-0677 ext. 29. 12:45 p.m.: The Milledgeville Kiwanis Club meets at the Milledgeville Country Club.

For more information, please call 445-4817. Saturday, May 30 11 a.m.: The Milledgeville Police Department will host registration for its summer MPD Junior Police Academy at the MPD substation at the Milledgeville Mall.

Don Harris, center, president of the National Alliance on Mental Illness Oconee chapter, presides over the group's monthly meeting at Covenant Presbyterian Church Tuesday afternoon.