Oconee County on Tuesday experienced its second sewer spill in the last two months and third in the last 11 months into an unnamed tributary of McNutt Creek near where the tributary crosses under Tanglebrook Drive at the entrance to Tanglebrook subdivision.
The break in the force main on Tuesday resulted in a release of 17,411 gallons of untreated sewage into the tributary.
The Oconee County Board of Education told the Georgia Department of Education last month that it expects the small decline in enrollment at Oconee County Schools in school year 2023-2024 to be temporary.
The Board predicted a growth in enrollment for the current school year, and for that growth to continue through to school year 2028-2029.
Nineteen vendors set up tents on the lawn in front of the Pavilion at Wire Park in Watkinsville on Saturday as the Oconee Farmer’s Market kicked off its 22nd season.
Vendors offered fresh lettuce and other salad greens, arugula, radishes, mushrooms, spinach, cherry tomatoes, and herbs.
More than 750 people turned out Saturday afternoon for a Hands Off Rally on the steps of City Hall in Athens to protest the policies and activities of President Donald Trump and his advisor Elon Musk.
Oconee County Democrats co-organized the event with Indivisible GA 10 and Athens-Clarke County Democrats, and Oconee County Democratic Party leadership was on-hand–and Oconee County residents were in the crowd–as the 90-minute-long rally played out.
Oconee Farmer’s Market launches its 22nd season at 9 a.m. tomorrow (Saturday) at a new venue–on the lawn in front of the Pavilion at Wire Park in Watkinsville.
Vendors are expected to offer early vegetables, mushrooms, baked goods, artworks, soaps, jewelry, and other products.
Oconee County commissioners on Tuesday approved two zoning changes designed to allow the developer of a shopping center at U.S. 78 and Mars Hill Road in the northwest of the county to move forward with the project.
The zoning changes are to accommodate a grocery store, putting the developer in the position to be first among three shopping centers along U.S. that included a grocery in their plans to actually build the store.
The Georgia House of Representatives on Monday pulled two bills designed to reconfigure the Athens-Clarke County Board of Elections and Registration from its local legislative Calendar and sent them to its Intragovernmental Coordination Committee for further consideration.
Rep. Houston Gaines, who represents one of Oconee County’s four precincts in the 120th House District and is the chief sponsor of the two bills, did not object when Beth Camp, chair of the Intragovernmental Coordination Committee, asked House Speaker Jon Burns to pull the two bills from the Local Calendar.
