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Oconee County Observations: High Point Farm Withdrawing Request To Operate Day...

Oconee County Observations: High Point Farm Withdrawing Request To Operate Day... : On BOC Agenda Greg Thaxton, president of High Point Farm, is asking the Oconee County Board of Commissioners to allow him to withdraw his ...

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Accident with injuries Accident with injuries Ga 316 between Mars Hill Rd and Mcnutt Creek Rd. All lanes a re blocked at this time. Please find an alternate route. Address/Location Oconee County Georgia Sheriff's Office 1140 Experiment Station Rd Watkinsville, GA 30677

Watkinsville, GA

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Fans get inside look at UGA basketball practice (football's next)

See you Saturday morning at 11:30 am? Fans get inside look at UGA basketball practice (football's next)

Grocers synchronize Sunday sales appeal to BOC

Grocers synchronize Sunday sales appeal to BOC : You might say that the national grocers are of one mind when it comes to Sunday sale of alcohol in Oconee County.

Some educators get behind Bible class

Some educators get behind Bible class : An off-campus Bible class has the support of a local minister and two former school-district educators.

Autovision Art Car Rally Is This Weekend in Farmington

Autovision Art Car Rally Is This Weekend in Farmington

Drive-By Truckers band on Dem unity

Drive-By Truckers band on Dem unity

Georgia House creates new historic preservation death panel

If we don't like what you're doing, or how you're doing it, we can take it away from you so you can't preserve that old home. Sounds very ominous for small rural preservation groups to me.  Georgia House creates new committee on historic preservation

Recovery of Confederate ironclad topic of talk at SCV meeting in Oconee County

Recovery of Confederate ironclad topic of talk at SCV meeting in Oconee County

Senior monk of Ramakrishna Order to speak at Athens church on Sunday

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Oconee County resident Rita Mathew sees the Swami’s visit as timely considering many of the controversial political issues today. “In an election year marked by polarizing debates focused on religion, minority ethnic groups, and deportation of select communities, wouldn’t it be refreshing to know that it was not so long ago that a Swami from India brought a message of unity amongst diversity,” Mathew said. “I attend the Vedana Center in Atlanta because I find it integrates my Christian faith with my upbringing in India,” she said. The work of the disciples of the Ramakrishna Order has influenced many Westerners, according to Mathew. Senior monk of Ramakrishna Order t o speak at Athens church on Sunday

Watkinsville house ready to move a few dozen yards

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Saturday morning I walked my dog in the far too hot son, and took a somewhat circuitous route back from the downtown Farmers Market in Watkinsville. We decided to check out some shade across the street from the Sanctuary, where there is a large old home ready to be rolled to the corner of a lot.  http://m.wap.onlineathens.com/content/photos-watkinsville-historical-home#slide-1 Thank goodness for a packed cooler with water at the end of the neighboring new lot with a note advising you to hydrate your aqua tauntaun in an obscure Star Wars reference. My dog Katrina welcomed the ice cold bottled water in our six block trek back to our abode.  I welcome development in Watkinsville like the new small house being built on  the edge of Watkinsville Woods and the new larger J.W. York houses being built adjacent to the backside of Morgan Manor Estates on Wilson. Sometimes with growth comes unintended consequences, and this is neither an indictment or a harbinger of negative effects on the