Watkinsville News

Submitted by Julie Phillips on Thu, 07/02/2009 - 2:05pm. I'll say right now I'm biased.

A curious Athens-Clarke police officer stopped about 4 a.m. Friday to investigate when he noticed a stationary pickup truck in the parking lot of Bell's supermarket on Hawthorne Avenue with the brake lights lit.

Mark Wallace's cats may not have cat condos or self-scooping litter boxes, but that doesn't mean they're not pets.

Oconee County Firefighter John Vangotum sprays down hot spots as firefighters battle one of several small forest fires along the railroad tracks near the Victoria Station subdivision on Tuesday in Watkinsville.

Ideologically speaking, state Reps. Doug McKillip and Bob Smith don't have a whole lot in common.

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

All the good things associated with the Fourth of July crisp wedges of watermelon and ice cold lemonade and patriotic displays are enough to make any red-blooded American say, "WOW!" So it seems only appropriate that WOW is the acronym for this year's Fourth of July activities in Oconee County .

Books may be the star of any library, but it was the new paint that grabbed all the attention last week at the Oconee County Library in Watkinsville.

Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Sims of Watkinsville, Georgia are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Brandy Alisa Sims to Kevin William Tate, son of Mr.

Becky DeLozier Vaughn, two time political office candidate and chair of the Oconee County Democratic Committee, resigned her committee membership unexpectedly at the end of the monthly meeting Thursday at the Oconee Government Annex citing personal reasons.

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

Cheri Wranosky's three-dimensional piece "Christina's Light" will be on display through June 30 at the Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation's 2009 Members' Exhibit.

The Reverend and Mrs. Barry Wilson Thompson of Marietta, announce the engagement of their daughter, Carmen Kay Thompson, to Jonathan David Dawson, son of Mr.

Emily Anne Hansford, top right, and Rebecca Edison, top left, watch as a book they and their fellow Girl Scouts put together for their troop's Silver Award goes through the press at Burman Printing on May 21 in Watkinsville.

"I'm the fourth generation in my family to go to West Point, but the first female," says Kandy , the daughter of Ken and Cindy Webber of Watkinsville, and a recent graduate of Oconee County .

From: Bill Yarbrough Date: June 3, 2009 10:10:41 AM EDT Albert Ward has written a book about the homes in Watkinsville.

Cyclists ride down Jefferson River Road on Tuesday as the 2009 Bicycle Ride Across Georgia arrived in Athens.

Today, near the waterfront city of Portsmouth, Great Britain, LeEllen Chandler is bracing herself for the French coast.

Fees for after-school, recreation and sanitation programs in Oconee County likely will increase next month, and some county government departments will face even deeper budget cuts, commissioners decided Tuesday.

Women's fashion retailer Chico's plans to expand its Barrow County distribution center yet again, investing $15 million to buy the closed Hagemeyer facility in a move that will create up to 250 jobs in the next three years.