Oconee County, GA Politics

Watkinsville Has Two New Restaurants, Pour and Suncatcher Café

The widening and reconstruction of Mars Hill Road is continuing in Oconee County, and as a result, Crooked Creek Road will be closed to traffic for 45 days beginning Friday, according to the Georgia Department of Transportation. Traffic will be detoured through Carriage Hill Road to Hodges Mill Road, then to Mars Hill Road. This closure and detour will allow the contractor to complete construction on Crooked Creek Road, according to a Georgia DOT news release. Currently, the project is 62 percent complete, with a scheduled completion date of May 2018, according to the DOT. The project was awarded to Auburn, Ga.-based G.P.’s Enterprises Inc. in July 2014. Oconee County’s Crooked Creek Road closing for 45 days beginning Friday

Why is Rev. Hice afraid to meet with his constituents? Why is he raising your taxes? Demand answers Rep. Jody Hice Town Hall Draws 100 People and a Chicken, but No Hice

Driver Injured in Prince Avenue Wreck Ironically, Threlkulb is a regional director for the state Emergency Medical Services. He was carrying materials for an awards ceremony tonight in Oconee County. Prince was closed completely eastbound and one westbound lane was closed for about an hour after the crash.

Oconee County could spend up to $820,000 to build a tunnel under the Athens Perimeter, part of which is in Oconee County. The tunnel is needed for a major new sewer line as the county ramps up its wastewater treatment capacity, the county’s public utilities director said in an agenda-setting meeting of the Oconee County Commission on Tuesday. “We’re thinking this tunnel is going to be necessary,” said Oconee County Public Utilities Director Wayne Haynie. Oconee may pay $820,000 to tunnel under Athens Perimeter

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Last week, I finally stopped while returning from a trip down to the southwestern part of our state. Here is what the marker reveals: “Just west of this marker is the grave of John Andrew who was a Revolutionary War soldier who fought in Georgia and South Carolina and served in the Georgia House of Assembly in 1783. He was a very early native Georgian (some say the first) to become an itinerant Methodist preacher and was the father of Bishop Osgood Andrew. “Bishop James O. Andrew was the focal figure in the split of the Methodist Church and the formation of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. This was the site of Mt. Zion Methodist Church/community, ca. 1820-1856. John Andrew preached here in the 1820s.” Loran Smith: Roadside marker in Bishop provides history lesson

Group wants Hice to conduct town hall meeting Posted: Wednesday, April 19, 2017 12:00 am | Updated: 12:01 am, Wed Apr 19, 2017. Stephen Milligan | The Tribune | 0 comments MONROE — More than a dozen protestors stood in front of U.S. Rep. Jody Hice’s headquarters in downtown Monroe to demand the congressman meet in person with his constituents. Indivisible Georgia District 10, a volunteer group of local constituents, gathered in front of the office of Hice, R-Greensboro, on Court Street, with signs asking why he was afraid of his constituents and reminding him he works for the voters of District 10. The group’s primary complaint was Hice’s refusal in recent months to meet with voters face to face in a town hall meeting. During the last recess of Congress, hundreds of House Republicans faced angry voters in town hall meetings, many of them hoping to convince their representatives not to repeal “Obamacare.” Hice, however, has not held a public forum in that time, sendi...