The Oconee County Library Board of Trustees will look very different when it meets again in January at the Oconee County Library in Wire Park.
Mark Campbell, who has been on the Board for two five-year terms and served as Board Chair for the last two years, will not be at the table in the front of the room.
Oconee County commissioners are scheduled to continue their discussion of proposed changes to the county’s Alcohol Beverage Ordinance on Tuesday night with the goal of taking final action on a revised ordinance at its regular meeting on Dec. 3.
The five commissioners spent 35 minutes at their agenda-setting meeting this past Tuesday (Oct. 29) reviewing a draft of the ordinance from County Attorney Daniel Haygood.
Just more than 70 percent of the active voters in Oconee County cast a ballot by the end of the final day of early voting on Friday.
That figure includes the 21,272 voters who cast a ballot in-person, the 1,446 who returned an absentee ballot, and the single person who voted provisionally but whose ballot has now been accepted, for a total of 22,719 returned ballots.
Kalki Yalamanchili told the gathered Republicans on Monday night that he is prepared to start addressing staffing problems in the Western Judicial Circuit District Attorney Office the day after the election.
Yalamanchili said he feels good about his prospects in his challenge of incumbent District Attorney Deborah Gonzalez, and he said he has had conversations with a number of persons who are interested in working with him as assistant district attorneys.
Marilyn Hall, who spearheaded an inventory of water service lines in Oconee County, had a clear message for those who attended the Board of Commissioners Town Hall Meeting earlier this month.
Oconee County does not have a problem resulting from lead water service lines, she said. She repeated that statement several times in her 15-minute-long presentation at the beginning of the Town Hall meeting.
After two consecutive regular meetings where citizens packed the Board Meeting Room at the new Instructional Support Center and large numbers signed up to speak, the Oconee County Board of Education got a reprieve on Monday (Oct. 21).
Relatively few citizens were in the audience, and no one signed up to speak during the Public Communication section of the meeting.
Oconee County Superior Court Chief Judge Lisa Lott granted a temporary restraining order on Thursday afternoon requiring the Oconee County Board of Elections and Registration to remove the challenge of voters it approved on Oct. 1 and to cancel a hearing on those challenges scheduled for Thursday (Oct. 24) evening.
Judge Lott issued her decision following a nearly 90-minute long hearing on Monday (Oct. 21) on a request by Oconee County resident Susan Noakes for the restraining order.
