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Why would a failing bank in Oconee County make a $6.8 million loan to a project in Lovejoy, a 103 miles away? We need to know answers, Chuck Williams, and how can the voters of the 113th trust you as a State Representative when you do not follow the rules and laws of banking to the detriment of your non-FDIC investors? Why appoint people to the board of North Georgia Bank with no financial experience? Why do you not replace people who have died on the Board of Directors? North Oconee High School is going to have a large car museum across the street thanks to that foreclosure sale Saturday by UGA. Because the University of Georgia was a land grant University founded before 1790, they can simply receive the property of the J. Phil Campbell Sr. Natural Resource and Ag Center from the Federal Government gratis. Getting an extra $300,000.00 for property valued at $600,000.00 (that's $900,000.00 total) is no way to run a campaign for State Representative either. Are you tired of the ...

Paving over streams and wetlands -- coming near you!

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Our chance to halt impervious developers here in Oconee County. And apparently the developer of the shopping center next to Athens Acadmey is going ahead with their law suit, or at least contemplating it, according to the Enterprise website sent twice in a blast this afternoon. Woven brightly, Daniel J. Matthews, Jr. To: oconee@yahoogroups.com From: ppriest@charter.net Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:01:55 -0500 Subject: [oconee] Paving over streams and wetlands -- coming near you! Hello! I have a favor to ask. If you could find time, I think it could REALLY make a difference to write a letter (see the template below) to ask the Georgia Environmental Protection Division to NOT ALLOW a developer to pave over a half a mile of streams and another section of wetlands near the border between Athens-Clarke and Oconee. The permit is still pending. We can stop it! Your objection to such irreversible damage to wetlands has to be mailed -- and it n...