Oconee County, GA Politics

I say make them pull privet and other invasive species of plants and garbage in Harris Shoals Park Witnesses Tell Watkinsville Police Boys Tried to Damage Park Pavilion

Oconee Sheriff's Office, Watkinsville Police Now Using New Digital Communications System

Watkinsville Police: Three Fender-benders in One Day the Result of Following Too Closely

Watkinsville Police: Homeowner Catches Woman Removing Items From Garage

For those of you who have yet to digest the front page story of today's Oconee Enterprise newspaper, suffice to say I was shocked to read the City of Watkinsville will not take part in a 4th of July parade down Main Street as it is currently configured. Whether this will result in the municipality's complete lack of participation in the official holiday is anyone's guess at this point. I will always defer to Chief Lee O'Dillon when it comes to matters of public safety, but now it has entered  into the realm of public consumption and participation (otherwise known as politics), I would be taking a much different tact and direction to that of the current Mayor if the voters of this municipality had decided to hire me instead of my opponent. The patriotic parade is now looking at marching around Veterans Park in a somewhat antiseptic plan lacking shade and sidewalks. I love the Oconee County Parks and Recretation Department, but I do not think this is the best place to...

I realize that a fire set at 3:47 am Sunday morning might be occurring at the most inopportune time possible for the sleepy Athens and Oconee County media and bloggers, but I am somewhat astonished that no one else - not the Banner-Herald, not the Enterprise and no other bloggers - have picked up on the apparent arson of the Watkinsville police officer William Horton's golf cart, car, and house in very near Main Street in downtown? I came home from Atlanta late Mother's Day afternoon and after watching some NBA playoff basketball was somewhat surprised to see Watkinsville Police Chief Lee O'Dillon talking about one of his own on the evening news out of Atlanta. Apparently WSB TV was the only one of the three Atlanta television news channels to send a reporter to Oconee County as the other two pretty much rehashed the Associated Press reports with the offer of the $10,000.00 reward from State Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine's office. But again I am somewhat disturbe...