Pursuing housing for the low income in Seneca

A home builder, Mercy Housing Southeast of Atlanta, is targeting Seneca’s E. North First Street to build low-income houses for families, seniors, and those with special needs.  Mercy Housing next month will ask Seneca Planning Commission for a zoning change to accommodate the homes, and a hearing takes place the night of February 20 at city hall.  The properties front […]

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Coroner’s announcement

Jon Glenn Thompson, Age 74-years, of Westminster, died Tuesday morning, January 23, 2024, at Greenville Memorial Hospital.  He died at 4:30 am. Mr. Thompson died from complications of injuries sustained from a Moped collision which occurred on January 3, 2024 at approximately 4:10 pm.  The collision occurred on the Coffee Road near Westminster. His manner of death is classified as […]

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Feedback requested on a sewer planning study

“The Oconee County Joint Regional Sewer Authority (OJRSA) has launched a community-wide study that is entering an engagement phase to provide key information to help plan future growth throughout the county.   The Central Basin Sewer Planning Study will collect and analyze the most recent data (including but not limited to census data, recent growth projections, land use, current and […]

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Straightening the record

The last part of our earlier post on last night’s meeting of Oconee County Council cast the wrong impression of the tax bite — resulting from the $25 million bond issue.  Christy Hubbard, county auditor, in an interview this morning sets the record straight as she sees going forward the financial considerations of the bond sale.  Her comments are being […]

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Brighter light shone on Oconee’s taxpayer-backed bond issue

Rumors that sewer lines will gobble up valuable farm property, combined with a heretofore lack of transparency on the part of Oconee government, produced a standing-room-only audience for last night’s special county council meeting, much of which was citizen participation.  And, after two-and-one-half hours dialogue, it fell to the council’s newest member, Don Mize to put a bow and a […]

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Prosecutor withdraws offer

The charges against a young man resulting from a summertime 2021 traffic accident in Oconee County will remain unresolved for at least three more weeks.  A proceeding this afternoon at which defendant Bradley Thomas Barnett was expected to plead to charges of felony driving under the influence and leaving the scene of an accident involving great bodily injury fell apart […]

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