More than 300 people turned out Saturday for a four-hour-long Democratic Party Voter Fair at the Oconee County Civic Center on Hog Mountain Road sponsored by the Democratic Party Committees of Congressional District 10 and hosted by the Oconee County Democratic Party Committee.
Candidates for Governor, Lt. Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of State, State School Superintendent, Labor Commissioner, and the Public Service Commission spoke and answered questions.
The first question to each of the five candidates who participated in a nonpartisan forum Tuesday night for Oconee County's state legislative races was about the candidates’s plans for seeking citizen input once they are elected.
“A lot of us are very frustrated that people who say they represent us refuse to meet with us,” retired University of Georgia Adult Education Professor Margaret Holt told Republicans Michael Broun and Doug McKillip.
Three opportunities for voters to meet with candidates whose names will be on the May 19 General Primary and Nonpartisan Ballot are scheduled for the week before or just as early voting begins on April 27.
Candidates for the contested Democratic and Republican primaries for Senate District 46 and the contested Republican primary for House District 120 have been invited to participate in the April 21 Candidate Forum at the Community Center in Oconee Veterans Park.
The Oconee County Board of Education has rejected two offers it received for 42.7 acres on U.S. 441 north of Bishop that the Board purchased in 2007 as a possible school site but that are now considered to be surplus property.
Board Chair Michael Ransom said on Thursday that the Board instructed Superintendent Melissa Butler to inform the two parties that had made the offers of the Board's decision after the Board’s work session on Monday night.
More than 300 people turned out at the Oconee County Administrative Building on Thursday to get close-up views of the three routes the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) is offering as alternatives for a truck bypass linking SR 15 with U.S. 441 south of Watkinsville.
The crowd started gathering at 4:30 for the 5 p.m. opening of the key exhibits in the Commission Chambers of the Administrative Building, and GDOT officials opened the doors to the Chambers 15 minutes early to accommodate the crowd.
The Oconee County Board of Education has decided to take the required legal step to issue $12.1 million in General Obligation Sales Tax Bonds to be retired by funds from the Education Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (ESPLOST) voters approved in November.
The bonds will be sold at interest rates not to exceed 5.5 percent per year, and principal is to be paid beginning in 2028 and running through 2032, or one year longer than the ESPLOST approved in November is scheduled to run.
The contest for the Democratic Party nomination for Congressional District 10 has become quite visible in recent weeks in Oconee County, as both of the active candidates have appeared before groups, each making the case that she is better able to flip the traditionally Republican district in November.
Lexi Doherty, who represented the party in the contest with incumbent Mike Collins two years ago, appeared before a group organized by residents of Presbyterian Village Athens at the Oconee County Library on Thursday afternoon. Doherty is from Athens-Clarke County.
