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.
