Median household income in Oconee County in the last Census was $95,064, up from $74,352 in 2010.
A third of those 16 years and older in the county holding jobs were in professional and related occupations (33.4 percent), up from 30.1 percent 10 years earlier.
Only 190 of the employed in the county were in farming or forestry (1.0 percent), but the figure was an increase from 96 (0.6 percent) in 2010.
The Georgia Department of Public Health reported that the Northeast Health District added 42 new cases of COVID-19 in the week ending on June 21, based on the Department’s electronic tracking system.
The number of cases added a week earlier in the Northeast Health District had been 39. The number of cases has increased just slightly in both of the last two weeks.
QuikTrip wants to open a new gas station and convenience store with bays for truck refueling on U.S. 441 west of the exiting RaceTrac and across U.S. 441 from the Oconee County Administrative Building now under construction north of Watkinsville.
Access to the proposed gas station and convenience store would be via a fourth side to the existing three-sided traffic signal at the intersection of U.S. 441 and SR 15 (North Main Street).
The Georgia Department of Public Health reported that the Northeast Health District added 39 new cases of COVID-19 in the week ending on June 14, based on the Department’s electronic tracking system.
The number of cases added a week earlier in the Northeast Health District had been 17. The number of cases added had fallen four weeks in a row prior to the increase in the report released on June. 14.
Oconee County Schools has received accreditation with glowing scores, Susan Stancil, Chief Academic Officer for the school system, told the Board of Education at its final meeting of the year last week.
The accrediting body Cognia assigned Oconee County Schools an overall score of 326, considerably above the score of 300 that signifies a system meets expectations for accreditation.
The Georgia Department of Public Health reported that the Northeast Health District added 17 new cases of COVID-19 in the week ending on June 7, based on the Department’s electronic tracking system.
None of those cases was in Oconee County.
This is the first time that the Department of Public Health has not reported a COVID-19 case in Oconee County since the Department began releasing weekly rather than daily reports in April of 2022.
Oconee County commissioners on Tuesday night turned down two requests to convert residential lots on Mars Hill Road to commercial development.
The Board of Commissioners, in a 3 to 1 vote, turned down a request to rezone 6.0 acres at the corner of Mars Hill Road and Julian Drive for an office park.
In a 2 to 1 vote, the Board rejected a request to rezone 3.1 acres on Mars Hill Road at Hollow Creek Lane for a dental office.
Oconee County commissioners and Board of Education members seem to have worked out an agreement for use of county and school sports facilities that basically rolls back the arrangement between the two governing bodies to where it was in 2010.
Neither Oconee County Schools nor the county will charge the other for use of its sports facilities.
The Georgia Department of Public Health reported that the Northeast Health District added 22 new cases of COVID-19 in the week ending on May 31, based on the Department’s electronic tracking system.
The number of cases added a week earlier had been 42. The number of cases added has fallen three weeks in a row.
