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Reply From County Planning Files (Lee Becker) Georgia Department of Transportation Chief Engineer Meg Pirkle has overruled the District 1 project team in favor of a full access median commercial break for a major shopping center on the Oconee Connector between SR 316 and Mars Hill Road. In a letter dated April 6 and posted by Oconee County planning staff on the county website on Wednesday, Pirkle told land owner Maxie Price she was honoring Prices request for maintenance of the existing median ...

Reply Jeff Hood At Town Hall Meeting (Lee Becker) Between 2024 and 2027, the Georgia Department of Transportation will construct full interchanges with flyovers on SR 316 at the Oconee Connector and at Jimmy Daniell Road as well as a flyover of Virgil Langford Road without on and off ramps. These projects will be "bundled," Oconee County Board of Commissioners Chair John Daniell told in-person and remote participants in a Town Hall meeting last week. They are part of a improvements to the Atlan...

Reply From GDOT Documents (Lee Becker) Construction is scheduled to begin in 2024 on four of nine intersection projects in Oconee County that are part of a massive effort to transform SR 316 into what the Georgia Department of Transportation is calling "a freeway-style corridor." Included in the initial construction is a "bundle" of projects that will include multi-grade intersections at the Oconee Connector and SR 316 and at Jimmy Daniell Road and SR 316. The "bundle" also includes a bridge ca...

Reply Death Reports State Health Agencies (Lee Becker) On Jan. 11, Oconee Countys St. Gabriel of Athens personal care home off Virgil Langford Road reported to the Department of Community Health its first two deaths from COVID-19 among its residents. On Jan. 20, St. Gabriels reported three more deaths from COVID-19, and on Jan. 26 it reported one more death. The next day, Jan. 27, it reported two more, bringing its total to eight. Subscribe On Jan. 22, Oconee Countys St. Marys Highland Hills Vi...

Reply Kevin Letch (Aaron Nowak/Lee Becker) The Oconee County Planning Commission voted 8 to 0 on Tuesday night to recommend to the Board of Commission that it deny the rezone request for a major shopping center at the intersection of Mars Hill Road and the Oconee Connector. The Commission took its vote after a relatively short discussion following a public hearing in which citizens voiced strong opposition to the project, raising concerns about the environmental impact of the project and about ...

Reply Kirk Shook, Ken Davis, Fran Leathers (Lee Becker) In voting for the Jan. 5 runoff, fewer than one in four of the 23,565 Oconee County voters who cast a ballot did so on election day, according to the official election results certified by the Oconee County Board of Elections and Registration early Tuesday evening. Nearly six in 10 of the voters participated in early in-person voting, and nearly two in 10 voted by absentee ballot. Republican U.S. Sen. David Perdue got 68.9 percent of the o...

Reply Board of Elections and Registration 12/28/2020 (Lee Becker) The Oconee County Board of Elections and Registration on Monday unanimously rejected a challenge by Oconee County resident Patricia Daugherty on behalf of Houston, Texas, based True The Vote of the eligibility of 1,450 Oconee County voters to participate in the Jan. 5 runoff election. The motion passed by the Board said there was no probable cause of a violation of Georgia law that would render the voters ineligible to cast a bal...

Reply Daugherty (Lee Becker) The Oconee County Board of Elections and Registration is scheduled to meet at 5 p.m. on Monday to respond to a challenge from Patricia Daughertry, 5041 Price Mill Road, west of Bishop, to the eligibility of more than 100 Oconee County registered voters to participate in the Jan. 5 runoff election. Daugherty, who is active in Conservative Republican Woman of Northeast Georgia and challenged Sen. Bill Cowsert in the Republican primary in 2016, submitted a list of vote...

Reply Department of Public Health Data (Lee Becker) The Northeast Health District added 374 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, 361 of them confirmed via molecular tests and 13 of them the product of rapid, antigen tests, as well as one of the two deaths from the disease reported in the state. The death was of a 79-year-old female in Barrow County without a known chronic condition. The listing followed a death in the county in Saturdays Daily Status Report and was the 63rd in the county attributed...

Reply Department of Public Health, Georgia Hospital Association Data (Lee Becker) With the listing of 298 new cases of COVID-19 in the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report on Saturday, the seven-day rolling average of added cases in the Northeast Health District increased to 380.9, up just slightly from the 379.4 average of Friday. The 10-county Northeast Health District also added three deaths, including one in Clarke County, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths in the ...