Oconee County, GA Politics

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Georgia GOP chair Padgett recovering at Athens home after Friday wreck

Market plans dinner

Korean-American announces for Senate run

RIP Robert Maloof

In the Loop: Broun Blasts Common Core, 'Fat Cat Bureaucrats' | Flagpole Magazine | Athens, GA News, Music, Arts, Restaurants

July's Ripe Corn Moon

Notice of Appointments to Oconee County Advisory Boards & Committees

Caterpillar spinoff hopes ‘dead’; Georgia Power economic development official tells PDA

Georgia vs. LSU will match ex-roommate QBs

Deal’s pals’ PAC collected $302K+ with no disclosure | Atlanta Unfiltered

Oconee Co GOP meets

Coroner: Autopsy Shows Woman at Oconee County Jail Died of Suicide by Hanging

North Oconee High School Student Gets Hands-On Experience At NASA

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note® II -------- Original message -------- From: "CCDC.Communications" <ccdc.communications@gmail.com> Date: 07/17/2013 3:27 PM (GMT-05:00) To: danmatt@hotmail.com Subject: Remembering and Honoring Jenny Penney Oliver --> Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser . Remembering and Honoring Jenny Penney Oliver, Clarke County Democratic Committee emerita member and former chair Remembering Jenny Penney Oliver The memorial service for Jenny Penny Oliver will be held this Saturday, July 20, beginning at 3:30 p.m. at the UGA Chapel.  Click   here  to read what her husband Steve has shared about Jenny and her memorial service. Honoring Jenny Penney Oliver If you would like to honor Jenny, please read the following   from her husband Steve: The Jenny Penney Oliver Chair ...

The Oconee Enterprise > News > First Christian Church basement flooded twice

Thank God

Nathan Deal’s salvage yard could be fueling another controversy

Nathan Deal - Georgia | CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington

I commend the Watkinsville First Christian Church for not waiting on the next heavy rain to find a solution to their flooding/run off woes: Their sign reads Caution: temporary dike due to Storm water run off and double or triple deep in sand bags to hopefully divert the next wet flow.

Carter: Unlimited contributions 'legal bribery'

Children Gather at Eagle Tavern to Learn About Purposeful Plants

Woman dies after arrest for DUI charge in Oconee

October 3rd, 4th and 5th: we are hosting a living history event to commemorate the 149th anniversary of Stonemans Raid on Watkinsville. We are planning to recreate the event by bringing in re-enactors and transforming part of Watkinsville to 1864. The event will consist of a soldiers camp, cavalry demonstrations, a ladies tea, and a story teller with stories from the area, a broom maker, a photographer and many "famous people" that will entertain with their encounters before, during and after the war. We are coming to you for help because in order to make this a success we need lots of things. The largest need is money - in the way of supplies, gas cards, water, ice and prepared food for the re-enactors, hay, and grain for the horses, printing of banners and flyers, as well as volunteers. Please consider this as a way you and your business can give back to the community and step back in time for the weekend. Thank you in advance and if you have any questions, feel free ...

Technology Leadership Award Presented to Oconee County Board of Education

Are Georgia’s Lethal-Injection Practices Constitutional?

Here's a preview of my story: Vinnie Williams, celebrated writer and publisher of The Oconee Enterprise, observed her 93rd birthday Tuesday in the presence of loved ones. Many of them—if not all—have read their own names within the concise but clever anecdotes of her Main Street column, where she comes off as no less omniscient than an eye in the sky. Among the somebodies who indulged in Williams’ heavily and ornately frosted birthday cake—which, in good humor, reversed her age so to truly reflect her youthful heart—were District 119 Rep. Chuck Williams, Chairman of the Board of Commissioners Melvin Davis and Watkinsville Mayor Charles Ivie.

Watkinsville will always be a historic town, the question is what are you going to do about it? Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note® II -------- Original message -------- From: psommer psommer@bellsouth.net Date: 07/16/2013 9:52 PM (GMT-05:00) To: 'psommer' psommer@bellsouth.net Subject: Historical First Friday Put August 2 on your calendars.  Downtown Watkinsville will be full of historical activities during First Friday (6-9).  Here's what we know so far:  At Ashford on Main there will be slide shows and videos of historical scenes, ye old historical book table, Old Copies of the Oconee Enterprise, a station with as scanner where you can share your old historical photos, a group of Civil War ladies having tea, Gary Doster's books, Sons of the American Revolution with their muskets (they will be shooting them on a regular basis during the evening),  a DAR and Colonial Dames booth and of course one for the historical society.  If you have ...

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note® II -------- Original message -------- From: Liz Flowers - Senate Democratic Caucus flowersliz123@gmail.com Date: 07/14/2013 11:25 AM (GMT-05:00) To: danmatt@hotmail.com Subject: Release - GA Senate Dem Fort Responds to Martin Decision MEDIA ADVISORY July 14, 2013 For Immediate Release Contact: Liz Flowers Senate Democratic Caucus 404-291-4755 flowersliz123@gmail.com GA Senate Dem Fort Responds to Martin Trial Equates decision with modern day lynching Atlanta, Ga. - July 14, 2013 -  Georgia State Sen. Vincent Fort (D-Atlanta), issued the following statement in the wake of the Trayvon Martin jury decision: "Last night's jury decision in the Trayvon Martin murder case was nothing less than a modern day lynching. It is time for elected officials and activists to redouble our efforts to create a just...

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note® II -------- Original message -------- From: "Bryan Long, Better Georgia" bryan@bettergeorgia.com Date: 07/15/2013 9:26 AM (GMT-05:00) To: danjmatt@bellsouth.net Subject: Gov. Deal's new $74 million tax problem Pay attention Georgia taxpayers. Gov. Deal has a new $74 million problem -- and this time you deserve a full explanation. On Sunday, the governor's hometown newspaper revealed a major concern with a personal business deal the governor tried to bury in the July 4 news cycle. Thanks to the Gainesville Times, we know today that the company that recently bought Gov. Deal's auto salvage business in Gainesville owes the state of Georgia $74 million in back taxes and penalties . In a nutshell: Nathan Deal had a political problem when he walked into the governor's office because of ballooning personal debt and lingering ethical concerns over his auto salvage business. ...

While I was raised never to ask a woman her age, there comes a point where longevity outweighs politeness and such is the case with Miss Vinnie Williams, longtime editor of the weekly Oconee Enterprise newspaper, legal organ of Oconee County. Congrats and remain healthy Miss Vinnie, we enjoy your columns, cards, and letters.

From: Pastures Rose Creek pastures1051@gmail.com Date: 07/16/2013 4:03 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Subject: The Pastures of Rose Creek: This Week's Harvest Ok...the moment has arrived....the moment you all have been waiting for! Drum roll please... And the name of our nameless scarecrow is.............. Sk-Edgar Allen Crow ! Congratulations to Anthony who is the winner of......  $1,000,000 Monopoly Dollars, a NO EXPENSES PAID vacation for two to Hawaii...AND a basket of veggies and farm fresh eggs!!!! Our judges had a really tough time with all of the amazingly creative names that came along!  We appreciate all those who participated!  Although all the names were GREAT, the names that were most in contention for first place were... Kavi - meaning "wise one" in Cherokee - entered by our very own market manager, Cindy Pritchard! P.o.R.C. Chop  - entered by Jennifer R. - love the farm plug!  Clementine ...

Not paying attention to the Georgia Senate race? You should.

Governor blames Vogle cost overruns on nuclear critics

Oconee man pleads not guilty in Emily Bowman hit-and-run

Oconee man pleads not guilty in Emily Bowman hit-and-run

Hurt: Georgia Chamber misinformed on state's legal climate | Athens Banner Herald Mobile

Your daily jolt: Athens tea party group owes $65k to speakers

Michelle Nunn on the Senate race: "I’ll be talking about it...

Watkinsville man shoots self and another with single bullet | Athens Banner Herald Mobile

The High Shoals Messenger. VOL. 2.1. HIGH SHOALS, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2013. NO. 6. Since 1897 COUNCIL MEMBER TO MARRY Town Council Member Steve Holzman will marry Rachel Cass on July 20, 2013. Both birders, they met at a Georgia Ornithological Society meeting in April of 2010. Rachel is an accomplished photographer, so Steve invited her to photograph the nestling vultures in the old barn at Town Park. As their relationship grew they shared birding trips from Alaska to Florida and points between. Last September, Steve proposed to Rachel on the beach at St. Catherines Island, while several oystercatchers, piping plovers, and black ski...

Buyer of Deal’s business in state tax dispute

Jones: Court order affects more than election dates

Harris Shoals Park , July 10-2013

Plum Creek, Georgia's largest private landowner, wants to grow | jacksonville.com

Oconee offers summer food program

Oconee County Observations: Fairway Retains Use of Two Old Billboards Covered ... : Sign’s Third Side Not Used Fairway Outdoor Advertising has not removed two of the four billboards it agreed to take down as part of a lega...

Buyer of Deal's business in tax dispute