Wayne writes a good story about a place where I worked
The bookstore at Gainesville State College's Oconee County campus expanded long after I toiled thirteen hour days there during the first couple days of each semester back in the heady days of the start of Facebook when you still needed a .edu email address to get on the social networking site in say 2006.
Wayne Ford of the Athens Banner-Herald wrote his typical comprehensive yet not boring history of the area and captured the flavor of the farm field without sitting in a cow pie. Most Oconee County residents have never laid eyes on the actual campus as it is just beyond the point of view off the Oconee Connector/Experiment Station Road down Bishop Farms Parkway.
I am glad the Board of Regents has worked with Dr. Penny Mills of GSC~Oconee and the Oconee County Planning Commission to expand that campus. The larger long range and short range expansion plans of that campus need to center on possible back entrance or possibly exit only right on to the 441 Bypass or at least the sound ecological bridging of Bishop Farms Parkways North and South, or possibly even some sort of combination of the two with a flyover intersection. Obviously that is going to take lots of vision, leadership and tax dollars not in the state coffers right now.
The Oconee County campus continues to be overpopulated and this is another area where mass transit would do us well in Oconee and Clarke Counties for students needing to travel from Athens to Watkinsville. If even a van were to drive three times a day from the main apartment routes in Clarke County to the campus just outside of Watkinsville proper, it would remove cars off the road. Once ago not all that long ago the Chairman of the Board of Commission voiced support for that, but nothing has seemed to been enacted since then.
Continued success to Oconee County, Georgia's only campus of higher education.
Wayne Ford of the Athens Banner-Herald wrote his typical comprehensive yet not boring history of the area and captured the flavor of the farm field without sitting in a cow pie. Most Oconee County residents have never laid eyes on the actual campus as it is just beyond the point of view off the Oconee Connector/Experiment Station Road down Bishop Farms Parkway.
I am glad the Board of Regents has worked with Dr. Penny Mills of GSC~Oconee and the Oconee County Planning Commission to expand that campus. The larger long range and short range expansion plans of that campus need to center on possible back entrance or possibly exit only right on to the 441 Bypass or at least the sound ecological bridging of Bishop Farms Parkways North and South, or possibly even some sort of combination of the two with a flyover intersection. Obviously that is going to take lots of vision, leadership and tax dollars not in the state coffers right now.
The Oconee County campus continues to be overpopulated and this is another area where mass transit would do us well in Oconee and Clarke Counties for students needing to travel from Athens to Watkinsville. If even a van were to drive three times a day from the main apartment routes in Clarke County to the campus just outside of Watkinsville proper, it would remove cars off the road. Once ago not all that long ago the Chairman of the Board of Commission voiced support for that, but nothing has seemed to been enacted since then.
Continued success to Oconee County, Georgia's only campus of higher education.
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