A Decade after "Carving Up Oconee" - how have we changed?
From Ann Stoneburner ahstoneburner@bellsouth.net Subject: For Immediate Release Date: March 5, 2018 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2008 - 2018 “Carving Up Oconee” Revisited - A Public Perspective: A film and panel discussion of how a formerly agricultural county struggles to retain its rural nature and natural beauty in the face of mounting developmental pressures. For more information: 706 – 769 - 5362 Details in brief: 3 pm Sunday, March 25, 2018 Watkinsville Library, 1080 Experiment Station Road, Watkinsville, GA Sponsored by the Oconee Democrats and Oconee County Progressives Free and open to the public Carving Up Oconee, an award-winning documentary filmed on location in 2008, shows a real life battle between citizens in Oconee’s farmland and the commercial developers who plan to build a truck stop in Farmington. Today as Oconee County formalizes a new comprehensive plan, voices are raised once again to spread commercial development around the county and no ...