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Jennifer Becker, and her son Sam, both from Rochester Minnesota, were in Pasadena, CA Sunday because Sam is a legitimate organ donor hero, affecting over 100...

Reply Relabeled Map Of Route In Georgia (Lee Becker) The Federal Railroad Administration and the Georgia Department of Transportation have chosen a route for high speed rail linking Atlanta and Charlotte, N.C., that passes through Athens, rejecting two alternate routes that bypassed the area. The proposed 274-mile route will be fully separated from the existing roadway and railroad transportation systems, and it will be on a new dedicated right of way for most of its distance. The route does no...

Reply Campaign Finance Reports (Lee Becker) Marcus Wiedower, who represents nine of Oconee Countys 12 precincts in the Georgia House of Representatives, has more than 10 times the campaign cash in hand than he had at this time two years ago. Houston Gaines, who represents the remaining three Oconee County precincts in the Georgia House, has nearly three times the amount of funds as he had at this point in the off-year in 2019. Bill Cowsert, who represents all of Oconee County in the Georgia Sen...

Reply Connector (Ahead) and Mars Hill 7/2/2021 (Lee Becker) Maxie Price let the deadline pass on Thursday without filing the threatened constitutional challenge to the decision by the Oconee County Board of Commissioners not to grant a rezone for a shopping center at the Oconee Connector and Mars Hill Road. Angela Elder-Johnson, Clerk of Superior, Magistrate, and Juvenile Courts for Oconee County, confirmed on Friday morning that Price had not filed suit in Superior Court by the end of the day ...

Early voting for the Watkinsville special election continues today and tomorrow from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Voting on election day Tuesday will run from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Health District, Oconee, Clarke Lag Nation On COVID Vaccinations - Oconee, GA - The Northeast Health District added 99 new cases and two deaths from disease in last seven days.

Reply Oconee County Schools Data (Lee Becker) The 10-county Northeast Health District added 303 new cases of COVID-19 in the last seven days ending on Friday, or an average of 43.3 cases per day, and only two confirmed deaths attributed to the disease. In the week ending on Friday of last week, the District had added 371 cases, or an average of 53.0 cases per day, and eight confirmed deaths attributed to COVID-19. Oconee County added 15 COVID-19 cases in the week ending on Friday, while Clarke ...

Reply Image Used By Land Planner Beall At Planning Commission (Lee Becker) If the Oconee County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday night were to approve the requested rezone for a shopping center at the intersection of Mars Hill Road and the Oconee Connector, it would be the third largest in the county in terms of building square footage. It also would be the culmination of efforts going back to 1988 to create a shopping at that location. Commissioners have approved smaller shopping centers on t...

Reply Department of Public Health Data (Lee Becker) The 10-county Northeast Health District added 371 new cases of COVID-19 in the last seven days ending on Friday, or an average of 53.0 cases per day, and 10 confirmed deaths attributed to the disease, or an average of 1.4 deaths per day. In the week ending on Friday of last week, April 23, the District had added 413 cases, or an average of 59.0 cases per day, and eight confirmed deaths attributed to COVID-19, or an average of 1.1 deaths per da...

Reply Matt Elder (Left) With Guy Herring (Aaron Nowak/Lee Becker) The Oconee County Planning Commission voted a second time on Monday night to recommend that the Board of Commissioners not rezone 47 acres at the corner of Mars Hill Road and the Oconee Connector for a major shopping center. The vote on Monday had six Commission members recommending denial and three voting against that recommendation. The vote on Jan. 19, when the rezone first came before the Commission, had been unanimous, with ...