Watkinsville floats retail sales for beer and wine
Those who wish to comment on the possibility of three convenience stores selling beer and wine inside of the city limits just as 90% of the rest of county does already are counseled to attend the next two Watkinsville City council meetings for the reading of the proposed beer and wine retail ordinance on the second Wednesday of the month. Councilman Brian Brodrick, realizing the mathematics making reasonably certain his defeat in opposing the measure, instead took the tact of making the measure the best it could by tightening what he thought were a few holes in the conservative document. City Attorney Joe Reitman conversed with Brodrick and addressed other concerns through out the evening. Reitman works for a dozen different municipalities including Bogart which now allows beer and wine sales (but evidently does not do so yet). He cobbled together the latest proposal from some of those and refined from the time when Watkinsville recently allowed beer and wine sales in restaurants (now ...