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Broun to host Barrow County Town Hall Meeting

Broun to host Barrow County Town Hall Meeting

Baseball song at Kumquat Mae Friday night in Watkinsville

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Greg "Redneck Greece" Reece sings a song about Dizzy Dean at a 1961 baseball telecast

The Pastures of Rose Creek: This Week's Harvest

IT'S NOT TOO LATE Sincerely,  Dan Matthews Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:06:03 -0400 Subject: The Pastures of Rose Creek: This Week's Harvest From: pastures1051@gmail.com To: Hello!!  One more week until The Oconee County Farmer's Market, y'all!!  Yay!  You will find us there April 6th, 8 am - 1 pm...downtown Watkinsville...can't miss us in front of the Court House!  But until then you can find us this Saturday at our produce stand on Rose Creek Drive...9 am - 1 (or until the veggies run out!) This week you will find... pasture raised eggs* pecans escarole arugula icicle radishes wood fired pottery *  We may be a little lower in supply of eggs this week - we had a big order to fill.  So, the early bird gets the...well, egg.  haha. Hope to see y'all this weekend! Your local farmers, Will, Dana & John The Pastures of Rose Creek, LLC 1051 Rose Creek Drive Watkinsville, GA 30677 706.254.9391 575.613

GOP Fighting Kills Sweeping Gun Bill

GOP Fighting Kills Sweeping Gun Bill

Shoplifting Suspect Gets Stitches After Tussle with Oconee Walmart Security Guard

You would think there would be texts or some kind of social media sharing amongst the more communicative of the shoplifting crowd that says something to the effect of "you do not want to stuff your pants full of merchandise at the Wally World on Epps Bridge because their private po-po going to throw you down and bust your brow" - and same for the other stores in that area. Hope the new mall does not have the similar problems, but sadly that is a normal course of economic success is those that try to elude normal channels of proper purchase. Shoplifting Suspect Gets Stitches After Tussle with Oconee Walmart Security Guard

Downtown grocery bill 'opens door' for Athens district

Well done for all involved in this part of local legislation - now will Governor Deal sign it? Downtown grocery bill 'opens door' for Athens district

Northeast Georgia scouts race cars to victory in derby

Northeast Georgia scouts race cars to victory in derby

Learning to paint

Learning to paint

Keeping the land clean in Oconee

Keeping the land clean in Oconee

Redneck Greece

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Red neck demolition derby man

Oconee County Republican Party Holds County Convention and Elects Officers

Oconee County Republican Party Holds County Convention and Elects Officers

Oconee County remains the most employed county in Georgia

Oconee County's Unemployment Rate Lowest in State at 5.1 Percent

GOP Rep Uses Racial Slur In Radio Interview

I can't even muster any outrage any more because this has become the norm for the increasingly revisionist and racist Republican party GOP Rep Uses Racial Slur In Radio Interview

wreck Snows Mill @ Walton County line from Oconee County Georgia Sheriff's Office : Nixle

wreck Snows Mill @ Walton County line from Oconee County Georgia Sheriff's Office : Nixle

I believe in Bogart, Georgia

My first encounter with Oconee County as a freshman was trying to date a young lady from Bogart named Jane Daniel in 1981. I fell in deep passionate puppy love over her smile and Southern charm as she sang in the band the Drastics (later to be Rum Jungle) with her brother John and his girlfriend Ellen Hendrix and Mike Dellinger. I think I was one of about a hundred and fifty young men in love with the fiery vixen. I stashed my stuff at her house in a shed when I went back to Iowa for my one and only college summer home in 1982.

Buzzkill? Cash-strapped states eye pot tax - Rachael Bade - POLITICO.com

Buzzkill? Cash-strapped states eye pot tax - Rachael Bade - POLITICO.com

Ashford on Main

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Site of the June Oconee County Democratic Committee meeting

Jeff Clarke - The Eagle Tavern Museum

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Making butter and cleaning laundry in 18th century America

Jeff Clarke - The Eagle Tavern Museum

Making butter at Eagle Tavern

'Nothing Is Worth Fighting For Unless It's Happening To You'

'Nothing Is Worth Fighting For Unless It's Happening To You'

Lots of people seem to think they know about the Athens Grocery Bill

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2013-2014 Regular Session - HB 517 Alcohol; local control of distance requirements of grocery stores and other licensees for retail sale of wine and malt beverages near college campuses; provide Sponsored By (1) Williams, Chuck 119th (2) Quick, Regina 117th (3) Frye, Spencer 118th (4) Tankersley, Jan 160th (5) Williamson, Bruce 115th (6) Peake, Allen 141st Sponsored In Senate By Ginn, Frank 47th Committees HC: Regulated Industries SC: Regulated Industries and Utilities First Reader Summary A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 3 of Title 3 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the regulation of alcoholic beverages generally, so as to provide for local control of distance requirements for grocery stores and other licensees for the retail sale of wine and malt beverages for consumption off the premises only such that grocery stores and other licensees shall be allowed to open in locations near college campuses such as downtown

Massage Envy in Oconee County has Job Openings

Massage Envy in Oconee County has Job Openings

Dustin Schroeder of Watkinsville Makes Dean's List at RIT

Dustin Schroeder of Watkinsville Makes Dean's List at RIT

Softball a family game for freshman slugger Glasco

Softball a family game for freshman slugger Glasco

Williams, Quick co-sponsored Bill tabled to allow downtown Athens grocery

Bill tabled to allow downtown Athens grocery

Prescribed Fire Burning Wednesday on Price Mill Road

Prescribed Fire Burning Wednesday on Price Mill Road

To Democrats who live around Oglethorpe County

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From: Patsy Harris patsydudney@yahoo.com Date: March 26, 2013 10:45:38 PM EDT To: undisclosed recipients: ; Subject: To Democrats who live around Oglethorpe County! Reply-To: Patsy Harris patsydudney@yahoo.com OK, I'll admit it, next month I will get my very first Social Security Check! Yippee! I think.  Just so happens that the Oglethorpe Democrats are going to have the perfect speaker for me and so very many of you at their next meeting, next Thursday, March 28. Here's the announcement from their Chairman, Janet Hill: Concerned about the future of  Social Security  and Medicare?  Gordon M. Sherman, Area Representative for the Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare (NCPSSM), will speak and answer questions on the outlook for and issues facing the Social Security and Medicare System.  Mr. Sherman was the Southeast Regional Commissioner to the  Social Security Administration  (SSA) for twenty years until hi s retirement. NCPSSM

Oconee 4th of July Spectacular 2013 to Spotlight Local Entertainment

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Oconee 4th of July Spectacular 2013 to Spotlight Local Entertainment

Gingrey announces US Senate bid

Gingrey announces US Senate bid

TONHS Dog Day IV April 27th flyer from John Mackay

Bring your pooch to the Town of North High Shoals at the end of April Sincerely,  Dan Matthews Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 18:29:00 -0700 From: ilovehighshoals@yahoo.com Subject: TONHS Dog Day IV April 27th flyer from John Mackay To: ilovehighshoals@yahoo.com Hello Everyone, We will once again celebrate spring with our annual Dog Day in the Town Park.  Here are the details..... SHOALS' 4TH ANNUAL DOG DAY SATURDAY, APRIL 27 , 9–NOON TOWN PARK Contests, Clinics, Pet Supplies Plus, and More! Prizes for Cutest and Ugliest Dogs Youngest and Oldest Dogs Fastest and Slowest Dogs Best Dressed / Best Trick Obedience / Obstacle Performance Free Stuff And More! www.northhighshoals.org , johnwmackay@gmail.com , 706.769.4289, 706.286.4572

Oconee County's Geri Ann Glasco garners SEC softball frosh honor

Congratulations to Geri Ann Glasco for being named Freshman of the Week in the Southeastern Conference Softball award.  UGA softball's Glasco garners SEC honor

Burglar Snatches Cash Drawer from Watkinsville Service Center

This sucks big time. I may not always agree with Darcy politically, but he has pretty much always repaired any car that gets dragged in there and done it reasonably fast and without hassle. I hope whoever did this gets caught quickly.  Burglar Snatches Cash Drawer from Watkinsville Business

Oconee County Starbucks Accepting Applications for Shift Supervisor and Barista

Starbucks offers their part-time employees health insurance. Starbucks does not discriminate based on gender preference either.  Oconee County Starbucks Accepting Applications for Shift Supervisor and Barista

Former Congressman Mac Collins “A Collins will be on the ballot in GA CD10” – Georgia Politics, Campaigns and Elections – Georgia Pundit

Former Congressman Mac Collins “A Collins will be on the ballot in GA CD10” – Georgia Politics, Campaigns and Elections – Georgia Pundit

Oconee County Commissioners to Interview Applicants for Boards

Oconee County Commissioners to Interview Applicants for Boards

Taylors Court Resident Sees Man Rummaging Through Mitsubishi

Taylors Court Resident Sees Man Rummaging Through Mitsubishi I wonder if this is connected to my car alarm going off during the Walking Dead last night

State House revises lobbying plan, sends back to Senate

State House revises lobbying plan, sends back to Senate

Universities should recruit older students, Oconee's Huckaby says

Universities should recruit older students, Huckaby says

ACTION ALERT: Ask your Representative to DISAGREE with Senate Substitute to HB 246!

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Write Chuck Williams on this one with the links provided Sincerely,  Dan Matthews Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:45:21 -0500 From: Amber.English@ppfa.org To: Subject: ACTION ALERT: Ask your Representative to DISAGREE with Senate Substitute to HB 246! Planned Parenthood Southeast, Inc.   **We apologize for sending you multiple e-mails, but your action is needed TODAY!** It happened.  A bill that will limit women's access to safe and legal abortions was all but dead in the Georgia State Senate but it was revived today and tacked on to an unrelated bill that passed out of the chamber.  House Bill (HB) 246, relating to employee benefits for workers at the Georgia World Congress Center, was amended to include Senate Bill (SB) 164, which bans abortion coverage in state employees benefit plans.  Now is time to act.  Ask your state representative to disagree with the amended HB 246 when it comes up for a vote in the State House. You c

Georgia lawmakers face deadline for compromise on budget, lobbying and guns | The Augusta Chronicle

Georgia lawmakers face deadline for compromise on budget, lobbying and guns | The Augusta Chronicle

Tony Hornsby is suspected in taking people's wallets

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This is the ne'er-do-well who has evidently been helping himself to people's wallets in a three county area. From: "Athens-Clarke County Police Department" listserv@civicplus.com Date: Mar 25, 2013 3:29 PM Subject: ACCPD Special Media Release Hornsby 032513 To: Cc: View this in your browser ATHENS-CLARKE COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT SPECIAL MEDIA RELEASE 25 March 2013 – prepared by Hilda Sorrow LOOKOUT FOR THEFT SUSPECT A lookout has been issued for ANTONIO "TONY" HORNSBY, 54, who is suspected of thefts at various businesses in the Athens area. He distracts employees with a rouse and then steals wallets. He has active warrants for Burglary (two), Theft by Taking, multiple counts of Financial Transaction Card Theft, Loitering/Prowling, and Theft by Taking (Auto). HORNSBY is 5'11", 260 pounds, and may be driving a stolen 1994 Buick Regal, tan/gold in color, with Georgia tag GA803I, with US Army Airborne stic

Watkinsville CVS Pharmacy Now Accepting Applications

Watkinsville CVS Pharmacy Now Accepting Applications

Oconee County Observations: Oconee County Will Remain Divided Between State Ho...

Oconee County Observations: Oconee County Will Remain Divided Between State Ho... : Committee Not Receptive All of Oconee County’s 13 precincts will not be reunited in a single district in the Georgia House of Representati...

Mike Guilbeau Obituary: Visitationand Funeral Information

I did not know him but worked with his brother Mark while I was employed by the University of Georgia Athletic Association. Heaven has a new string coach and quite an ace. Mike Guilbeau Obituary: Visitation & Funeral Information

Oconee's Huckaby addressing Raising the Stakes: Economic Development at UGA

Raising the Stakes: Economic Development at UGA

Oconee teen on board pushing for strict texting law

Oconee teen on board pushing for strict texting law

Blog | Jeannette Rankin - spend $30 and wear a big hat April 14th to send women to college

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Blog | Jeannette Rankin HOME ABOUT History & Mission Board of Directors Staff 990s Events Info Newsletter IMPACT FOR STUDENTS YOUR SUPPORT DONATE INFO FACT SHEETS    ·    BLOG    ·    BLOG RSS 2013   ·  2012   ·  2011   ·  2010   ·  2009   ·  2008   ·  2007   ·  2006 next → 1 2 3 … 22 Can you work your way through college? Share on Tumblr Molly Berg | Mar 19 2013 |  link to article   · · ·  Tags:  education ,  working in school ,  college debt In an  article by  The New York Times , several college students were interviewed about their debt-free education. These students excelled academically and worked nearly full-time jobs to avoid colossal debt when they graduated. One of the students, Steve Boedefeld, enrolled in the military and did several tours of duty to save money before coming to college. He now goes to Appalachian State University and works 15 to 20 hours a week as an electrician. He forgoes time with friends to be with his family and study when