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.
Incumbent Democratic District Attorney Deborah Gonzalez and Kalki Yalamanchili, challenging her on the Nov. 5 ballot as an Independent, agree that there have been problems in the District Attorney Office in the last four years.
They disagree to some extent on the severity of the problems, and they disagree on the causes. They disagree most strongly on the solutions.
The Oconee County Democratic Party turned its final meeting before the Nov. 5 election over to the seven candidates running with party support, giving each a chance to say once again why voters should support them.
Legislative candidates Gareth Fenley, seeking to represent the 46th Senate District, which includes all of Oconee County, Andrew Ferguson, running in House District 120, and Eric Gisler, running in House District 121, were on hand.
Oconee County Schools administrators have presented the Oconee County School Board with six memorandums governing the relationships between nearby schools systems and police and sheriff’s offices regarding school resource officers (SROs).
School Superintendent Jason Branch told the Board members at their work session earlier this month that he was providing the six documents “for your review” and that the Board should inform him “if there's thoughts or items that you want to share with us” after reviewing them.
The Oconee County Board of Elections and Registration spent 90 minutes at the beginning of the month reviewing on a case-by-case basis challenges to the ability of 75 registered Oconee County voters to cast a ballot for the Nov. 5 election.
After reviewing each of the challenges made by Oconee County residents Victoria Cruz and Stephen Aleshire, the Board voted to sustain the challenge in 66 of those cases.
