Watkinsville News

A Watkinsville man faces drug charges after a detective ran a check on his Jeep on Wednesday morning and stopped it because its tag belonged on another vehicle, Athens-Clarke police said.

Writers and singers will celebrate the holidays in a festive collaboration Dec. 16 in the Main Gallery of the Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation in Watkinsville.

The Oconee Rotary Club welcomed Mark Jones, left, of Gainesville State College and Jeff Davenport of Davenport Family Chiropractic in October, bringing the club's total membership to 76.

Dr. Patricia Priest, not the one who starred on the old TV series "The Munsters" but instead the radio producer and activist who lives in Oconee County, has selected another interesting tome for discussion.

Employees at Five Guys Burgers and Fries, 101 College Ave., needed Athens-Clarke police to help them get a drunken Watkinsville man out of the bathroom at 3 a.m. Friday, according to a police report.

Candidates for mayor of two Franklin County towns who both lost by one vote are disputing the election results in court.

Harris Shoals Park in Watkinsville soon will get a makeover - the first SPLOST-funded project for the city.

The Watkinsville City Council approved a series of business licenses, building permit and pouring licenses in their regular November meeting Wednesday evening, lending further credence to the economic recovery here in the county seat of Oconee County.

Watkinsville police have arrested a man who they say impersonated an officer by wearing a T-shirt with a badge printed on it and held a family at gunpoint.

Oconee County High School students Victoria Geisler and Andrew Kowalski were named school winners for the 2009 Wendy's High School Heisman Award, based on academics, athletic talent and community leadership.

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.