Blog posts by Lee Becker
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Oconee Farmers Market Starts Apr. 5
Blog: In the Loop
Farmers market board member Annie Kennedy.
Oconee Farmers Market will launch its 11th season with the opening of the Saturday market on Apr. 5 and the Tuesday evening market on May 13.
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Athens Reps Quick, Williams Vote to Allow Guns in Government Buildings
Blog: In the Loop
Regina Quick
Oconee County’s two members of the Georgia House of Representatives voted with the Republican majority on Tuesday to pass an omnibus gun bill that would allow, among other things, licensed holders of guns to enter county government buildings that do not have security restrictions in place.
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Clear-Cutting for Hard Labor Creek Reservoir Starts Monday
Blog: In the Loop
Residents of southeastern Walton County as well as others traveling through the area will soon get a clearer sense of the scope of the 1,400 acre Hard Labor Creek Regional Reservoir project.
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Oconee Commissioner Asks for SPLOST Delay
Blog: In the Loop
Oconee County Commissioner Margaret Hale asked her fellow commissioners Tuesday night to delay the vote on the Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax referendum from May to November, but none of them expressed any support for her request.
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Thanks to Student Apartments, Oconee Building Permits Top Pre-Crash Levels
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Athens Ridge
The Oconee County Code Enforcement Office issued 502 single family and town home permits in 2013, exceeding the number issued for residential construction in 2006—before the housing collapse of a year later.
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Oconee Residents Pitch Funding for Farmland, Tennis
Blog: In the Loop
Twenty-two speakers Monday, Feb. 11 made their pitches to the Oconee County Board of Commissioners, arguing that the projects they favored should be funded by the Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax scheduled to be on the May 20 ballot.
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No-Bid Contracts Granted for Caterpillar
Blog: In the Loop
The industrial development authorities of Oconee and Athens-Clarke counties in early 2012 granted two no-bid contracts totaling $870,079 to Williams and Associates land planners of Oconee County for engineering services for the Caterpillar project.
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Oconee SPLOST Requests Top $100 Million
Blog: In the Loop
Chief Superior Court Judge David Sweat wants a $25 million judicial facility added to the list of projects to be funded by Oconee County’s 2015 Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax.
Oconee County Coroner Ed Carson wants $55,000 for a transport van.
These two requests bracket $100.2 million in requests that will be summarized in a public hearing with the Oconee County Board of Commissioners that will start at 6 p.m. today at the Civic Center on Hog Mountain Road.
The Commissioners have to pare that list down to about $38 million before they vote on March 4, as they are expected to do, to put the issue on the May 20 ballot.
The meeting tonight is the second and final chance for citizens to publicly express their feelings about the proposed projects and which ones will likely lead them to vote in favor of the tax at the May election.
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Caterpillar Is Employing 364 People
Blog: In the Loop
During 2013, Caterpillar created 364 of the 1,400 full-time jobs it has said it eventually will have at its newly-opened manufacturing plant on the Oconee County and Clarke County border just east of Bogart.
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Warm Reception for Downtown Watkinsville Plan
Blog: In the Loop
Judge David Sweat discusses the Watkinsville plan at a Sunday, Feb. 2 meeting.
Architect Robert Smith got a warm reception Sunday afternoon from the 35 people who turned out for his second presentation of his plan for a revitalized downtown Watkinsville centered around the existing courthouse and a new, nearby government building.
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In the Loop | February 24, 2014 10:45am
Oconee Farmers Market Starts Apr. 5
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In the Loop | February 23, 2014 3:57pm
Athens Reps Quick, Williams Vote to Allow Guns in Government Buildings
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In the Loop | February 20, 2014 12:03pm
Clear-Cutting for Hard Labor Creek Reservoir Starts Monday
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In the Loop | February 19, 2014 12:12pm
Oconee Commissioner Asks for SPLOST Delay
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In the Loop | February 17, 2014 10:32am
Thanks to Student Apartments, Oconee Building Permits Top Pre-Crash Levels
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In the Loop | February 14, 2014 11:48am
Oconee Residents Pitch Funding for Farmland, Tennis
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In the Loop | February 11, 2014 1:47pm
No-Bid Contracts Granted for Caterpillar
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In the Loop | February 10, 2014 11:14am
Oconee SPLOST Requests Top $100 Million
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In the Loop | February 6, 2014 1:46pm
Caterpillar Is Employing 364 People
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In the Loop | February 5, 2014 1:44pm
Warm Reception for Downtown Watkinsville Plan