County mulls school district offer

Chairman Paul Cain of Oconee County Council announced last night that the school district has offered the county the building and grounds at Oakway once the intermediate school there is closed in a couple of weeks.  Cain says the offer includes 30 acres which bode for possibilities.  But the councilman for the Oakway area, Joel Thrift, says, “I really don’t think this is a discussion we should have at this particular time.”  Thrift says there need to be meetings with the community club and others in Oakway to discuss what residents there would like.  This morning District Two’s Wayne McCall says the offer is a surprise to him, and he believes it was deliberately kept from him and District One’s Edda Cammick in the dark about it.  McCall last night suggested the Oakway school as a location for a permanent home for the county’s farmers market, but his colleagues disagreed.