Spencer Frye, who represents the 122nd District in the Georgia House, told Oconee County Democrats earlier this month that he doesn’t know what is going to happen when the General Assembly meets in special session Wednesday to create new legislative districts for the state.
Frye said his district, which currently falls entirely in Clarke County, could be changed or left alone.
The Georgia Department of Public Health reported that the Northeast Health District added 145 new cases of COVID-19 in the week ending on Nov. 22, based on the Department’s electronic tracking system.
The Department of Public Health reported the Northeast Health District had added 184 cases in the week ending on Nov. 15.
Library Books and traffic concerns were the key topics at the Oconee County Town Hall Meeting held by the Board of Commissioners on last Wednesday.
The meeting began with Board Chair John Daniell outlining the 10 ballot items voters will be asked to approve in the May Primary Election to increase the homestead exemption for all county home owners and simplify property tax exemptions for seniors.
Brian Brodrick, Chuck Garrett, and Connie Massie each picked up one vote on Tuesday when the Oconee County Board of Elections and Registration certified the results of the Nov. 7 elections in Watkinsville.
The change in the vote totals from the Unofficial and Incomplete Results released on election evening and the Official and Complete Results certified by the Board on Tuesday was the result of acceptance of one provisional ballot.
The Georgia Department of Public Health reported that the Northeast Health District added 184 new cases of COVID-19 in the week ending on Nov. 15, based on the Department’s electronic tracking system.
The Department of Public Health reported the Northeast Health District had added 140 cases in the week ending on Nov. 8.
The Oconee County Planning Commission on Monday approved, in 5 to 3 votes, a rezone request for a commercial development at the front of the massive Parkside residential development on Hog Mountain Road that will include self storage units and small shops.
The shops, Abe Abouhamdan, representing the Parkside developer, said will be tailored to patrons of adjoining Oconee Veterans Park and are likely to include an ice cream parlor, coffee shops, small restaurants, and speciality shops.
The Georgia Department of Public Health reported that the Northeast Health District added 140 new cases of COVID-19 in the week ending on Nov. 8, based on the Department’s electronic tracking system.
The Department of Public Health reported the Northeast Health District had added 141 cases in the week ending on Nov. 1.
Responsibility for prosecution of five types of misdemeanors in Oconee County will shift from the Western Judicial Circuit District Attorney to a Magistrate Court prosecutor as a result of action taken by the County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday night.
Included is prosecution of shoplifting cases, which Board of Commissioners Chair John Daniell said makes up the bulk of misdemeanor cases in the county.
Pam Hendrix told the Oconee County Board of Education at its meeting on Monday that she and other citizens know the county has a great school system.
“I want to commend everybody for that,” she said.
Hendrix said she had two questions, however, that she wanted to have answered.
Incumbents Chuck Garrett and Connie Massey handily defeated challengers Rebecca Billings and Carolyn Maultsby in Watkinsville Council races on Tuesday.
Garrett received 67.1 percent of the vote to Billings’ 32.9 percent in the race for Post 1.
Massey received 71.9 percent of the vote to Maultsby’s 28.1 percent in the Post 2 election.
In a brief meeting last week, the Oconee County Board of Commissioners tentatively approved spending $547,220 as the county’s share of the cost of design services for the upgrade of the Bear Creek Water Treatment Plant in Jackson County.
The Upper Oconee Water Basin Authority has awarded a $2.3 million contract to Jacobs Engineering Group, an international professional services firm with offices in Atlanta, for the upgrade of the water treatment facility from 21 million gallons per day to 42 million gallons per day.
The Georgia Department of Public Health reported that the Northeast Health District added 141 new cases of COVID-19 in the week ending on Nov. 1, based on the Department’s electronic tracking system.
The Department of Public Health reported the Northeast Health District had added 146 cases in the week ending on Oct. 25.
Twenty-eight Watkinsville voters cast a ballot in the final day of early voting on Friday, the largest number that has turned out on any day in the three weeks of advance voting leading up to Tuesday’s Election Day.
A total of 224 of the city’s voters has participated in early voting, and three more have returned an absentee ballot, meaning that just 9.6 percent of the 2,369 eligible voters have cast a ballot so far.
A Georgia Department of Transportation project team has identified the potential need for a nearly four-mile-long detour during construction of a grade-separated, diamond interchange on SR 316 at Jimmy Daniell Road.
Traffic on Jimmy Daniell Road wanting to access westbound SR 316 could be required to travel north on Jimmy Daniell Road and then New Jimmy Daniel Road, westbound on Atlanta Highway, and then southbound on U.S. 78 to reach SR 316.
The owner of the property on Hog Mountain Road that will surround the planned new entrance to Oconee Veterans Park is asking the county to allow for a multi-use commercial development of the 25-acre site.
Proposed are small-scale business and commercial buildings to accommodate small shops, cafes, and services that will be accessible to users of Oconee Veterans Park as well as to the residents of the future Parkside residential development.
