Nonpartisan Candidate Forum, Two Party Meetings Provide Opportunities To Meet Candidates As Early Voting Gets Underway

***Voters Pose Questions Directly At Nonpartisan Forum***

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.

Oconee County School Board Rejects Offers For Purchase Of Surplus Property On U.S. 441 North Of Bishop

***Said Offers Not Reflect Market Value Of Property***

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.