Watkinsville News Archives

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.

A student can pass the Georgia High School Graduation Test, but not score high enough to meet federal requirements - a strange glitch in the No Child Left Behind law that leaves local high schools with little way to get those students to try again.

Kerry Breedlove and Ross Fowler were united in marriage on Saturday, November 22, 2008 at 6 p.m. at the Foundry Park Inn in Athens, Georgia.

Federal regulators have cracked down on five more troubled Georgia banks, including Atlanta-based Georgian Bank, one of the state's largest community banks.