Bishop News

Describing what is happening in a burgeoning bedroom community with some industry in the shadow of UGA.

The Moore's Ford Memorial Committee civil rights group will host a diversity training workshop from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. next Saturday at the Oconee County Library, 1080 Experiment Station Road.

The Oconee County Library will offer two job skills workshops by Joey Freeman, a former career advisor with the University of Georgia Career Planning and Placement Center.

Chad Woodall, 2007 World Grip Strength Champion and fitness coordinator at St. Mary's Wellness Center, will host Northeast Georgia's first grip strength competition at 10 a.m. June 20 at the center.

A 26-year-old Watkinsville man died in a two-car crash Sunday evening when the car he was driving ran a stop sign in western Oconee County, according to information the Georgia State Patrol made available this morning.

A benefit nine-hole golf tournament will take place June 9 at Lane Creek Golf Course in Oconee County to help Madison County resident Bryan Barrett, who was seriously injured in a March 25 tree fall.

Describing what is happening in a burgeoning bedroom community with some industry in the shadow of UGA.

The new Faculty Center Building is located at the rear of a line of classrooms on Gainesville State College's Oconee County campus in an area once occupied by a parking lot.

Brown, Bonner S., 77, of Hartwell; 11 a.m. at Strickland Funeral Home Chapel; interment in the Bethesda UMC Cemetery; Strickland Funeral Home, Hartwell, has charge of arrangements.

On April 14, for the first time in 21 years since Bishop's annual town supper began as a way to bring local townfolk together, Councilman Harold Parsons didn't say grace.

The state Department of Transportation still isn't ready to sign a contract to build an anticipated road in Northern Oconee County.

The Alumni Association of North Georgia College & State University recognized Anne Amerson, a Dahlonega native and 1956 graduate of North Georgia, with its Hall of Fame Award at the organization's annual awards banquet on April 18.

The Board of Regents will no longer require 75 minimum days of instruction per semester at state institutions.

Oconee County senior Drew Bowers recently signed a letter of intent to play baseball at Young Harris College.

The Oconee County High School Symphonic Band earned multiple ratings of "superior" at the Georgia Music Educators Association's Large Group Performance Evaluation on March 11.

Brown, Dorothy , 67, of Winder; 2 p.m. at Barrow Worship Center, interment in Bethel Baptist Church Cemetery; Smith Funeral Home, Winder, has charge of arrangements.

Gene Rice relaxes in a rocking chair on the front porch of his Oconee County home on a recent March afternoon, reminiscing about his youth in Madison County.

Oconee Baptist Church will hold an "Old Time Tent Revival" featuring sermons from six pastors from Monday through April 10 at the church located less than a mile south of Bishop on U.S. Highway 441.

In his 80 years on this Earth, Watkinsville resident Gene Rice has had a number of occupations.

Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Alligood of Bishop, Georgia, are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Christina Lea Alligood of Athens, Georgia to Joseph David Stephens, of Macon, Georgia, son of Mr.