Watkinsville News

In photos at lower left, Crystal Evans, executive director of the Athens Area Humane Society, dances Thursday with Chloe the cat in front of the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile at the humane society in Watkinsville.

Albert Ward, center, laughs alongside Oconee County Commission Chairman Melvin Davis, left, and Jack Norville after announcing Tuesday in Bogart they will move a historic tenant house from private property to Heritage Park.

Watkinsville Station Fire Chief Mike Link demonstrates the department's bucket truck for Colham Ferry Elementary School Principal Jackie Carson and Assistant Principal Chuck Cunningham during the school's annual fire safety program for students in kindergarten through third grade.

The wedding of Miss Catherine Floyd and Dr. Steven Bailey was held on Saturday, June 27, at Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in Atlanta.

Describing what is happening in our burgeoning bedroom community with some industry in the shadow of UGa and Athens, Georgia ~ Watkinsville, Bogart, High Shoals and Bishop.

Dennis McDaniel prepares some home-cooked barbeque for storage outside his Oconee County home on a recent Friday evening.

Dalton Ward, 4, makes a fish mask with help from father, Greg Ward, on Saturday during the annual Scary, Oozy, Slimy event at the Sandy Creek Nature Center.

The Oconee Area Resource Council recently hosted the Georgia Family Connection regional board meeting and installation at Oconee Veterans Park Community Center in Watkinsville.

An attorney for a Watkinsville man says his client will pay $125,000 to local investors who accused him of luring them into a complicated Ponzi scheme.

It might be the equivalent in local politics of the "American Idol" tryouts, a screechy, screaming exercise in participatory democracy.

Liz Kramer, a public service assistant at the University of Georgia's College of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences, will lead the next "Saturday Stroll" on Saturday in Watkinsville.

Cookie Winters, left, watches Jerry Winters stir kettle corn underneath their tent during the 36th Annual Oconee Chamber Fall Festival in downtown Watkinsville on Saturday.

Recent Banner-Herald headlines have referenced a revival of talks about an economic development alliance between Athens-Clarke and Oconee counties.

The Watkinsville City Council meeting Wednesday was anything but routine, starting with the 4H Club requested and administered Pledges of Allegiance from a young Guthrie gal, to Andy Griner showing his questionable municipal political ploys from the back row of the audience, to the Police Chief Lee O'Dillon revealing a daytime break-in next ...

Robert Wyatt, a retired professor of botany and ecology, will lead an hourlong stroll in Watkinsville starting at 9 a.m. Saturday as part of the "Saturday Stroll" series organized by the Oconee County Democrats.

Local filmmaker Curtis Krick's mocumentary "Something Blue," is set to headline the Dixie Film Festival taking place in Athens, Georgia, October 16-18, 2009.

A painting is sometimes more than just a painting. "There's art that has the power to transform," said the Rev.

Oconee County soon will have an additional 350,000 gallons of water running through its pipes - right into Walton County.

The 36th annual Oconee Fall Festival will be held in downtown Watkinsville from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct.

The relationship between Athens area hospitals and the new ambulance service that serves them is working, officials on both sides say.