Oconee County News

The Oconee County Board of Commissioners received a report last Tuesday from its Land Use and Transportation Planning Committee that included a summary of committee discussions on the future of the courthouse and the committee's recommendation regarding a resolution on stream and wetland mitigation, but it took no action in response to the report.

With a cast of more than 100 of the area's most talented young people, the award-winning Broadway musical "Grease" will kick of the 2010 performance season of the Oconee Youth Playhouse.

The Georgia Club, a large, upscale mixed-use subdivision that straddles Barrow and Oconee counties, plans to become more visible to drivers along Georgia Highway 316.

A car show has been organized to benefit the Oconee County Soccer Booster Club. The show will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday in the Oconee County Middle School parking lot at Butler's Crossing.

The owner of two Athens convenience stores and four of his employees face gambling charges after they made cash payouts to undercover officers who played video slot machines in the stores, Athens-Clarke police said.

A man was looking for poachers on his land just over the Oconee County line when he found an ATM that a team of thieves stole four months ago from a bank off Atlanta Highway in Western Clarke County, officials said.

The Citizen Advisory Committee for Land Use and Transportation Planning is scheduled to make a report Tuesday night to the Oconee County Board of Commissioners on its work over the last year, including its review of a resolution on stream and wetland mitigation and its consideration of options for expansion of the courthouse.

Twice as many Clarke County residents lived in poverty last year than in 2000, according to Census Bureau estimates released this week.

Thursday, November 19, 2009 Wanted: MORE Democratic candidates for public office in Oconee County and the 10th District of Georgia The Oconee County Democratic Committee met once again this evening, and it is basically the same set of folks lamenting our lack of candidates for the same set of offices time and time again.

Jeff Thomas' 18-year stint as mayor of North High Shoals ended with a resignation letter.

The Oconee County Sheriff's Office reported the following incidents: Oconee County police blotter Published Wednesday, November 18, 2009 The Oconee County Sheriff's Office reported the following incidents: Burglary: On Nov.

Sometime in the next three to six months, drivers using the Mars Hill road/Daniells Bridge road/Oconee Connector intersection will have a chance to stop for a coffee/toilet/snack break mid-junction at the new QuikTrip, officially to be QuikTrip Store No. 819.

Watkinsville Mayor Jim Luken told the Oconee County Citizen Advisory Committee for Land Use and Transportation Planning at its meeting last week that he believes the county administrative offices should remain at the present courthouse while the court functions could be moved close to the jail.

To answer the question you'll have in just a second: Yes, it was fun to leave a politician speechless for a change, although not as much fun as you might suppose.

Sunday afternoon to commemorate the nation's armed forces past and present, living and deceased it was impossible not to feel a sense of togetherness.

The Oconee County Citizen Advisory Committee on Land Use and Transportation Planning voted overwhelmingly last night not to recommend that the Board of Commissioners pass a resolution before it stating the county's preference for mitigation of damage to stream and wetlands in the county with restoration in the county.

"These schools are getting great results from all students in many different areas," state Schools Superintendent Kathy Cox said.

A 37-year-old Athens man got punched by one of the men in a twosome behind his group Tuesday at Lane Creek Golf Course, according to the Oconee County Sheriff's Office.

The advantages of Athens- Clarke and Oconee counties combining forces to benefit economic development efforts for the area are obvious and have been pitched by local elected officials and business leaders for more than a year now.

The fact that a sharecropper's cabin like those that dotted the Oconee County landscape decades ago will be given a place in a historic "village" being reconstructed at the county's Heritage Park reflects well on the county officials and others who have steered, and will steer, the effort to keep the county's past alive.