Oconee County School Board Chair Says Board Would Like To Have A New Superintendent In Place In September

***Interim Superintendent Harden To Reopen Mold Investigation***

Oconee County School Board Chair Michael Ransom said the Board would like to name a new school superintendent in September and have that person start serving as superintendent that month.

Ransom said he recognizes that his time line is “pretty aggressive,” and he said it is likely the new superintendent will not be in place until later in the fall semester, and perhaps not until January.

Unveiling Of Marker Recognizing 1905 Lynching By Angry Mob Draws Large Crowd To Oconee County Courthouse In Watkinsville

***Names Of Victims Read Aloud***

Approximately 75 people turned out in the extreme heat on Sunday to unveil a memorial marker on the north side of the Oconee County Courthouse in Watkinsville to recognize the lynching of nine individuals on that site 120 years ago.

The marker lists the names of the eight persons who lost their lives to the mob violence–one miraculously survived–and notes that the 1905 lynching was one of the deadliest such events in Georgia history.