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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 County added 61. The seven-day rolling average of added cases was 2.1 in Oconee County and 8.7 in Cl...
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 two of the three properties in the intersection in the past, but the property owners never developed ...
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 day. Oconee County added 22 COVID-19 cases during the week ending on Friday, and Clarke County added 6...
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 all eight voting members in favor of denial. Subscribe Steven Strickland and Chuck Hunt changed thei...