Oconee County, GA Politics

Oconee County Observations: More SPLOST Money May Be Needed For Courthouse Sec... : Turnout Low At Hearing Only about 20 people turned out tonight at the third meeting on proposed projects for the Oconee County 2015 Specia...

Oconee County Observations: Oconee And Walton Counties To Hold Hard Labor Cree... : Gov. Deal Expected The Hard Labor Creek Regional Reservoir Management Board has decided to hold an official reservoir groundbreaking cerem...

Oconee County Observations: Oconee County Commissioners Award Bids For Grounds... : Pebble Creek Suit In Background The Oconee County Board of Commissioners last Tuesday awarded $92,298 in bids for grounds maintenance at O...

Oconee County Observations: Rose Creek Mitigation Bank Seeking Variance To Wor... : Holds Easement For Site Rose Creek Mitigation Bank, one of two such banks operating in the county, is awaiting a state permit to be able t...

Oconee County Observations: Oconee County Commissioners Scheduled To Decide Fu... : Now Sitting Empty The Oconee County Board of Commissioners tomorrow night is scheduled to take up a rezone request by the new owner of Peb...

Oconee County Observations: Rep. Quick Has Draft Legislation In Hand To Change... : Receptivity In House Uncertain Rep. Regina Quick of the 117th House District has received from the House Legislative Counsel draft legisla...

Oconee County Observations: Mars Hill Widening on Schedule, Oconee County Publ... : Dirt Moving by Late 2013 The purchase of needed rights of way for the widening of Mars Hill Road from SR 316 to Butler’s Crossing is progr...

Oconee County Observations: Oconee County To Add Three Billboards As Part of S... : One For Butler’s Crossing Oconee County will get three new billboards--two of them on Epps Bridge Parkway and one in Butler’s Crossing--as...

Oconee County Observations: Oconee County Magistrate Court Judge Finds Oconee ... : What Does Hours of Operation Mean? Oconee County Magistrate Court Judge Eric Norris on Friday found Matt Elder in violation of a county zo...

Meet Oconee Patch Blogger Lee Becker

Oconee County Observations: Oconee County Gives Nod to Intergovernmental Agree... : “Simple Concept” Approximately 838 acres that straddle the Oconee County-Clarke County line, split roughly in half when the Georgia Genera...

Oconee County Republican Forum May 19, 2011 from Lee Becker on Vimeo .

Oconee County Observations: Tiny City of Bishop Puts Most Expensiave Project o... : "A Bypass at That Tiny Bishop won the Oconee County T-SPLOST list sweepstakes. With only 224 residents, the smallest of the county’s four ci..."

Thanks to Lee Becker of Oconee County Observations blog for filming the G.O.P. Candidate forum last week

Please attend the Oconee County Board of Commissioners Town Hall meeting 7 pm Tuesday evening at the Oconee County Civic Center. Also read the new blog of Johnathan McGinty. That is all. From: Lee Becker lbbecker@mindspring.com Date: Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 8:55 PM Subject: Tuesday Town Hall Meeting To: lbbecker@mindspring.com Dear Friends, Readers of this blog know that the county is holding a town hall meeting at 7 p.m. on Tuesday at the Civic Center. Other bloggers also have promoted the meeting. But readers of the print media alone easily could have missed it. Both of the local weeklies have ignored the meeting. The Athens Banner-Herald at least has run two shorts announcing it. I've listed a number of issues that could--some are arguing should--come up at the meeting. I'm certain you can think of others. I urge you to come to the meeting and express your concerns and ask your questions. My list and other details about the meeting are at: http://oconeecounty...

Well deserved award to Oconee County Observations blogger Lee Becker and his work to maintain and keep clean Barber Creek here in Oconee County. From: Lee Becker lbbecker@mindspring.com Date: February 4, 2010 10:54:01 PM EST To: lbbecker@mindspring.com Subject: Georgia River Network Awards Reply-To: lbbecker@mindspring.com Dear Friends, The Georgia River Network today named the winners of its 2010 River Celebration Awards: the Coosa River Basin Initiative from Rome as the Watershed Group of the Year, Gordon Rogers of Albany as the River Conservationist of the Year, and me as the Volunteer of the Year. I'm truly delighted and honored, and I thank Karen Kimbaris, Eleanor Cotton, Tim Price and Joe Block from the Friends of Barber Creek for their support. Certainly they deserve the recognition as well. Details are at: http://oconeecountyobservations.blogspot.com/2010/02/georgia-river-network-announced-river.html Lee -- Lee Becker Blog: www.oconeecountyobservations.blo...

Well written letter by UGA Journalism professor Lee Becker with links and facts. Somehow someone commented at the end that the Oconee Enterprise newspaper is owned by a Tea bagger. While Miss Vinnie may enjoy an occasional steeped and brewed cup of tea, she has never struck me as being that far right. Rob Peecher at the Oconee News Leader is another story all together. Lee Becker: Pivotal Oconee vote is Tuesday | Letters | OnlineAthens.com Shared via AddThis

Begin forwarded message: From: Lee Becker < lbbecker@mindspring.com > Date: April 16, 2009 10:48:54 PM EDT To: lbbecker@mindspring.com Subject: Water and Sewer Rates in Oconee to Increase Reply-To: lbbecker@mindspring.com Friends, Oconee County residential water users will be asked for the second time in a little more than a year to pay more for water, if the Board of Commissioners approves a budget request made Wednesday night by the Utility Department. The increase of 31.8 percent in the base water rate is needed to compensate for a decrease in water sales and consequent decrease in revenues for the Utility Department, the BOC was told. Sewer rates also would increase, if the Board accepts the proposal, by 24.0 percent. For details, go to http://www.oconeecountyobservations.blogspot.com/ Lee -- Lee Becker Blog: www.oconeecountyobservations.blogspot.com Web: http://lbbecker48.googlepages.com/