Oconee County, GA Politics

From: School Street Gym < schoolstreetgym@yahoo.com > Date: April 24, 2010 6:45:39 PM EDT To: Subject: Very, very important announcement! Reply-To: schoolstreetgym@yahoo.com Having trouble viewing this email? Click here Important Announcement When: June 1, 2010 Where: 1071 Jamestown Blvd., Watkinsville 706-769-1239 We are moving!!   After 5 wonderful years SSG has decided to expand our gymnastics program.  We have been blessed on School Street, but we feel that is it time to move.  So, after much consideration, counsel and prayer we are happy to announce that effective June 1, 2010 we will be moving! Our new location is at 1071 Jamestown Blvd. , behind Colony Square in Oconee County. Our new name will be Oconee Gymnastics Center . We are a non-profit organization allowing us to utilize funding for c...

Watkinsville is the county seat of Oconee County. That much being said, there is a movement afoot to move the Courthouse to outside of the current city limits of one round mile around the Courthouse. There are three properties for sale immediately adjacent to the Courthouse, stated Mayor Jim Luken. He is an ex-Marine and chooses his words carefully, not given to dramatic or grandiose statements. Luken did not come out and name names by saying that it was Don Norris who came out and stated what evidently Board of Commissioners chair G. Melvin Davis said in the infamous secret meeting in Madison in December of last year. Former chair Wendell Dawson was the first to write about the plans to move the courthouse out of its current location out of this notorious meeting which now threatens to end the political careers of at least three people. Given the economic state, and the recent upgrades and $84,000.00 window treatments going on even two weeks ago, the current courthouse is fine. An...