Oconee County, GA Politics

LAD Trucking let the City of Watkinsville officially know Wednesday evening at the meeting at the Community Center of the urgent need to expand after an ultra-successful partnership with Carrier truck lines had made every inch of the expansive property on Barnett Shoals Road used as far as storage for the refrigerator front end of the cooler big rigs you see carrying frozen goods down the road.  Mack Guest IV of LAD Trucking With Caterpillar keeping the economic boom going locally, the need for trucking will continue to expand for a while, and Watkinsville will remain a hub in transit, metal, pottery, and glass for the foreseeable future. Watkinsville City Council September 11, 2013 The City Council listened to engineer Mark Campbell before approving the less than one acre disturbance on the back end of the old Southwire property. Some discussion was exchanged about storm water run off and the tributaries of the the nearby Oconee River, and the motion contained languag...

My son and I just hiked to and from Town Center and there are lots of big semi-frozen puddles of slushiness that will freeze overnight making Tuesday much more treacherous than today. Lowell Matthews and snow man at 2 South Main Street in Watkinsville, Georgia We had lunch at the Subway Restaurant managed by Clif Cauley at 2 South Main Street in Mike Thornton's Town Center development.  I am not certain if it was manager Clif Cauley himself making our six inch sandwiches, but their new chipotle sauce rocks on their Philly sub toasted, kind of like a spicier Thousand Island dressing. Whomever was there used to work at the Subway on Prince Avenue in Athens, and is a very dedicated worker. He may see us again later this week. The restaurant Chops and Hops was open, too. We actually saw a couple of people venture in there while we were on our snow trek. Was glad to learn about that on Facebook this morning. That restaurant has an amazing selection of beer and pretty good slabs o...