Oconee County, GA Politics

Congratulations to Amrey Harden for being appointed to this board by Governor Sonny Perdue State Workforce Investment Board B. Amrey Harden, 55, Watkinsville – Harden is president and chief executive officer of Oconee State Bank. He formerly served as mayor of Watkinsville, Georgia and is currently a member of the Northeast Georgia Regional Commission, Upper Oconee Basin Water Authority, and Northeast Georgia Workforce Investment Board. He is also a trustee for Athens Regional Medical Center and is a member of the Oconee County Chamber of Commerce. Harden earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Georgia. He and his wife, Debra, have one child.

This was borrowed from an advertisment in the Oconee Enterprise newspaper, 3/11/10 ~ I would love to know the back story Notice Concerning Oconee State Bank Vicky V. Cain provides notice to the public that Oconee State Bank is proceeding wrongfully on its foreclosure on her home located at 1063 Lancaster Court, Bogart, Georgia 30622. Mrs. Cain has offered to pay off the lot loan in return for Oconee State Bank simply canceling its security deed. Mrs. Cain borrowed absolutely no money from Oconee State Bank to build her home. When the loan for the lot was issued, Oconee State Bank never revealed an intent to reap a windfall from the significant improvements (investment) Mrs. Cain made to this lot with her own money to build her home on it. Neither she nor the Bank intended the home that was being built was going to be collateral for other business debt that Mrs. Cain is not responsible for. The Bank now seeks to be enriched unjustly by attempting to foreclose on her hom...

Oconee State Bank, four others in state, rapped by regulators  | ajc.com I do not know the particulars of this banking problem locally, but I do not think it would warrant a run on their assets or anything like it. I do think it is of great local concern that foolish real estate developments have come back to bite us all squarely in the ass. Wendell Dawson's blog has done a great job of naming names, streets and locations of the poorly executed ghost towns littering our landscape. It is no big secret, these stubbed out incomplete assemblages of legitimate living space. Look next to Publix, on the way to Oconee Veterans Park or Herman C. Michael or any number of other spaces near to our schools. Maybe that will become my new photographic obsession. Posted using ShareThis