The Classic Center Cultural Foundation is offering a grant opportunity for programs or projects that support performing, visual, or culinary arts efforts, or workforce development initiatives aligning with the hospitality industry in Athens-Clarke County. Applications are being accepted now …
After Oconee County Schools awarded the $3.135 million bid for Colham Ferry Elementary School’s 10-classroom expansion to Atlanta-based Amacher Brothers, a local bidder raised concerns.
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It’s been almost two years since 19-year-old Oconee resident Joey Jackson was murdered.
Watkinsville Post 1 candidate Chuck Garrett defeated challenger Carolyn Maultsby in a landslide on Tuesday.
As families walk into Children’s Librarian Rebecca Ballard’s corner of the Oconee County Library, they’ll be venturing into a world of color and fun.
As the first hometown bank since the Great Depression, Oconee State Bank opened its doors in Watkinsville in 1960. For sixty-one years, it has remained a community bank.
Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series about cancer survivors.
With brown stoneware clay in hand and their feet on the pottery wheel pedal, local teens learned how to forge their own pottery pieces during Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation’s summer camp last week.
When Danielle Grier shows and sells properties for her real estate business, she’s always thinking about how to help children and first responders.
Extra Special People’s Big Jump event is just another way for Steve Nugent to continue supporting children and young adults with disabilities. Nugent, who serves on the nonprofit’s board of directors, will skydive out of a plane during the fundraiser.
Just before Extra Special People’s first round of summer camps began, the Oconee-based M & K Foundation gave the nonprofit a $4,000 boost to help more campers attend.
Last month, the Board of Commissioners appointed Oconee native Holly Hardigree Stephenson to succeed Kathy Hayes as county clerk.
Dugan Bridges’ filmmaking has taken him across the globe, from New York to Europe and Asia.
Oconee Veterans Park Facility Supervisor Pat Sebring spoke passionately last week during a Recreation Advisory Committee discussion on safe, multi-use trails.
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Both the city of Watkinsville and Board of Commissioners have recently signed a memorandum of understanding to move the Oconee County Library from Experiment Station Road to Wire Park off Barnett Shoals Road. The library is expected to open there in 2022.
The Oconee Board of Commissioners plans to roll back the millage rate this year. An exact figure has not been released, but public hearings will be held on July 6, July 27, and Aug. 3.
Early voting for the Watkinsville special election continues today and tomorrow from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Voting on election day Tuesday will run from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at City Hall.
In 2008, the city of Watkinsville changed the zoning around Experiment Station Road to disallow industrial use. Two industrial-type businesses on that corridor, AmeriPride (now Aramark Uniform Services) and Oconee Waste Transport, were grandfathered into the new code.
Colossians 3:23 states that, “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters.”
“It’s foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived,” Brig. Gen. John Gentry said at the annual Memorial Day program at Oconee Veterans Park. He was quoting the late Gen. George S. Patton.
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Several weeks after the city of Watkinsville approved a 60-unit senior living complex in downtown, the Oconee Board of Commissioners gave a unanimous thumbs up on a 100-bed assisted living facility just outside the city limits.
In lieu of a traditional ribbon cutting, Animal Services Manager Crystal Berisko and EMA Director C.J. Worden ceremoniously cut a leash in front of the newly renovated and expanded Animal Services building last week. They playfully called it an “unleashing.”
Smiling and dressed in blue regalia, triplets Caleb, Ethan and MaKayla Ward and cousin Bryce Jenkins relished revisiting old teachers and classmates at Colham Ferry Elementary School just three days before graduating from Oconee County High School.
