Oconee County, GA Politics

Last call for vote on Sunday alcohol in Georgia | jacksonville.com

Fear mongering is a popular spectator sport in Oconee County. The county government is not going to start forcing people to buy beer at $1.00 a bottle with a plate of chips at various restaurants outside of the municipalities. The misinformation flying around about this argument is amazing as usual, but I must give the various components of the opposition to allowing people to order beer and wine with a meal credit for effective tactics in attempting to delay the inevitable. I was not living in Oconee County when beer was first made available in convenience stores in the mid 1980s I believe. I did drive out to Oconee County to some solitary cinder block shack somewhere off the old 441 back when I was a degenerate undergraduate earlier than that to buy beer on Sunday for the then outrageous amount of $10.00 for a 12-pack. People are going to drink no matter what you do. People will tailgate and dine at restaurants in various eating establishments, and if they want a beer or wine with th...

The scheduled vote for the pouring of beer and wine in restaurants will not be an April Fool's Day joke to some Oconee County residents as originally scheduled, it will be a week later

Got to tour the new Taco Stand with big glass doors in Butler's Crossing and it looks like a smaller version of any of the four Taco Stands in Athens or Atlanta. Square feet wise, it most closely resembles the Milledge Avenue Taco Stand but with the glass doors it should be more spacious and less crowded. The Oconee County Taco Stand will not open by Valentine''s Day but should be open sometime in March probably once they get the tile laid and painting. The principal of the Oconee Middle School across the street reportedly wants to open a BBQ restaurant right next door and an unidentified restaurant owner wants to bail out of the rapidly deteriorating and nearby Jamestown Shopping Center and move over there. Found out a pair of restaurants closed in that nearby Colony Square Shopping Center, a Zero's Subs and a Meals in a Minute place closed in the last month. There is a newer restaurant there called Rachel's Southern Meals that has great sausage biscuits and goo...