The 10-county Northeast Health District added 541 new cases of COVID-19 in the week ending on Friday, and six new confirmed deaths from the disease.
One of those added deaths was of a 55-year-old male in Clarke County without a chronic condition.
The average number of added cases in the week ending on Friday was 77.3, or nearly the same as the 77.0 of a week earlier.
The staff of the First Amendment Clinic at the University of Georgia School of Law has asked Oconee County Schools to remove or modify a restriction contained in its Social Media Terms of Use put into place before the beginning of the current school year.
Those Terms of Use prohibit persons from commenting on the social media sites maintained by Oconee County Schools if the comment, in the view of the school staff, "relates specifically to an employee, parent or student grievance or complaint."
The Oconee County Board of Elections and Registration is scheduled to hold a called meeting at 5 p.m. on Dec. 22 to vote on a proposal to reduce the number of precincts in the county from 12 to eight.
The proposal is to combine two precincts that already use the same voting locations though they remain technically separate.
The 10-county Northeast Health District added 539 new cases of COVID-19 in the week ending on Friday, and six new confirmed deaths from the disease.
One of those added deaths was of a 79-year-old female in Clarke County without a chronic condition.
The average number of added cases in the week ending on Friday was 77.0, compared with the average in the two weeks ending on Dec. 3 of 59.7.
The Oconee County Board of Commissioners approved zoning on Tuesday for a new large medical building and an assistant living community in the fast-developing medical area along Virgil Langford Road between SR 316 and SR 10 Loop.
University Cancer and Blood Center plans to open a 25,000 square-foot medical office on the just less than five acres of undeveloped land on the northeast corner of the Oconee Connector and SR 316.
Valeo Americas plans to develop an age-in-place retirement community with a memory care and assisted living complex, an independent living complex, and senior living cottages on just less than 31 acres fronting on SR 316 but stretching back to the Jennings Mill residential area.
The Oconee County Board of Education decided on Monday to award a $34.4 million contract to Bowen and Watson Construction Company of Toccoa for construction of a third middle school next door to Dove Creek Elementary School in the far northwest of the county.
The estimated total cost of the project is $39.6 million, including furnishing and technology.
Internal documents Oconee County School prepared in advance of the Education Local Option Sales Tax referendum approved by voters in March had estimated the total cost at $36.6 million.
Just more than 70 people turned out at Harris Shoals Park in Watkinsville on Saturday to remember the nearby lynching deaths of three African-American men on that date 100 years earlier.
The group then walked across Experiment Station Road to the approximate site of the lynching and drove three wooden crosses into the ground.
The crosses bore the hand-lettered names of Aron Birdsong, 36, Wes Hale, 55, and George Lowe, 45, Oconee County farmers killed on Dec. 4, 1921.
