Oconee County, GA Politics

A very good source revealed to me that the high end grocery store long sought by discriminating shoppers who have traveled 50 miles to Atlanta to shop at will be coming to Oconee County soon. More soon when I can get further information. The location is part on Epps Bridge Parkway.

Transferable Development Rights is a difficult to grasp concept where essentially one end of Oconee County would give up its right to build on its land for the other end to be able to build at a higher density than is allowed currently by zoning and planning. The Oconee County Democratic Committee distributed and discussed the report put together by activists and developers to try to begin the process of possible putting this in place for Oconee County. At 5 pm on Sunday, February 22nd at the Oconee County Library (if available)in Watkinsville the Oconee County Democratic Committee will host a meeting to help foster understanding of this complex issue with the possibility of Dr. Russ Page and Wayne Provost if they are willing and available to discuss this issue. Newton County has begun the process of of beginning this with the help of Rick Pruitz. There are other examples in Georgia such as the Chattahoochee Hills community in Fulton County and to a much lesser degree the Orange Twin ...

Here are some other areas where you can watch the Inaugural. To: oconee@yahoogroups.com From: southoconee@yahoo.com Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:33:55 -0800 Subject: Re: [oconee] FW: Inauguration Celebration Here's what I found for the UGA venues. Tony Media Advisory: UGA to offer several Inauguration Day viewing opportunities Athens, Ga. - The University of Georgia will offer faculty, staff and students several opportunities to view the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama, Jan. 20. Screenings will be available at the following locations: - UGA Chapel, 10 a.m. -  2 p.m. - Fine Arts Balcony Theater, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. - Russell Library Auditorium, UGA Main Library, West Entrance, noon - 2 p.m. - Memorial Hall 407 (Adinkra Hall), 11:45 a.m. - 2 p.m. - East Campus Village Fireside Lounge, Noon - 2 p.m. - Tate Student Center Theater, 11 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. From: Jane <jbvkidd@aol. com> To: oconee@yahoogroup...

OK, first off, shame on the Oconee County Board of Commissioners for ruining LaVista Drive off Hwy. 441 in the small sliver of the Athens area of Oconee County near Athens Academy by approving the rezoning despite massive neighborhood opposition near the Chaddwyck subdivision for some ill-conceived grocery store chain, and I urge everyone to boycott this store once it is built some months from now. Second off, Acting Superintendent Jackson of the Oconee County Board of Education may be a fine man and decent administrator but the mere fact that he was at the helm during the Dickens gets to keep his job during softball state title while banging and stalking his former player scandal pretty much disqualifies him from consideration for the permanent position in my book. I hope the guy from Banks County does a good job. Third, go see an Oconee County Recreation Department basketball game now that the regular season has started. My son Lowell played very well in his opener Monday and even th...

Every new restaurant takes some time get its patterns established. Any time you come in a new place before it has figured out how to do the little things, while still figuring out how to do the big things, you run the risk of being on the shorter end of the learning curve. Such was our experience this evening at the new Town Center restaurant in Watkinsville called Shishkabobby's, or "Barberitos on a stick" as I like to call it. The set up and the cilantro seem the same at least. David Weeks, the beleaguered chairman-elect of the Oconee County Board of Education and ill-advised pimp for State Senator Bill Cowsert's re-election advertising, has his hands full with his media onslaught, and I do not imagine we will be seeing Dr. Thomas Dohrmann eating in there any time soon. Simple improvements would include wiping down the tables more regularly and not when people are eating next to them. Have some examples of the finished product for people to see. Are we getting a sk...

From: Celestea Sharp < celesteasharp@nyc.rr.com > Date: Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:40 PM Subject: "Carving Up Oconee" screenings at UGA Film Festival Oct 25-26 To: Hi Dan, I have seen and appreciated your mention of my film on your blog, and I wanted to be sure that you knew that "Carving Up Oconee" will be screened twice at the upcoming UGA EcoFocus Film Festival at Ciné in downtown Athens: -- on Saturday, October 25, at 3:00 pm (panel discussion with Courtney Gale, Tony Glenn, and    Michael Reuter afterwards) and -- -- on Sunday, October 26, at 8:15 pm (Q and A will follow the film, and several film personalities    will be present). I'm hoping that the film will spark some good discussions among the audience about issues important to Oconee County residents. More information about the film and the filmmaker and crew, as well as the main characters of the film, can be found on the film website at www.carvingupoconee.com . ...

Before the Oconee Enterprise newspaper labels this candidate forum another personal or group vendetta, this is an honorable gathering of interested individuals and groups with no agenda other than informing Oconee County voters and making wise decisions with that information. The rest of this letter is from Lee Becker. Dear Friends, Oconee County Board of Education candidates Tom Breedlove and Rich Clark have agreed to take part in a Candidate Forum from 7 to 9 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 13, at the auditorium in the Oconee County Library in Watkinsville. The Oct. 13 Candidate Forum is being organized by members of five citizen organizations: Citizens for Oconee's Future, Citizens for South Oconee County, Friends of Barber Creek, Friends of the Apalachee, and Oconee Citizens for Responsible Growth. I'm the president of Friends of Barber Creek. Citizens will be able to ask questions directly of Breedlove and Clark at the Oct. 13 Forum. Please go to my blog at www.oc...

Why would we want a grocery store in the midst of the busiest traffic thoroughfare in Oconee County? This is what you get when the more narrow minded members of the Oconee County Planning Commission continues to drive our economic engine into the ground. Sure the zoning and planning may actually conform to the prospect of such a project, but for once does the neighborhood have anything to say about what stores get rammed down their throats? Bruce MacPherson, Bill Yarborough and George Rodrigues are the three members of the Planning Commission who vote with some regularity against moronic development in our community, and kudos to them for doing that. Someone trying to win an insurmountable write in campaign might consider such populist issues to propel their campaign, For those who do not know the background, there are plans afoot to build a grocery store shopping center somewhere near LaVista Road and Highway 441 here in Oconee County. This is near both the campus of Athens Academy a...