Trees down countywide

After the drenching, Oconee County is left to fend with fallen trees. One particularly large tree fell at the western edge of the county, on New Madison Road, one-eighth mile from 123/the Westminster-Toccoa Highway. The coming onslaught of a new band of hard prompted the Oconee Common Pleas Court judge to send home the jury early yesterday afternoon. They are due back in court at 9 this morning to continue to hear defense witnesses in the case of Plateau versus Oconee and Talbert and Bright. The week and a half old trial appears to be in its final stages.