Recent Stories

• Health care funding increase looms
  Gorilla-like cost will cover retirement benefits
  Saturday, May 17, 2008
  There’s a 500-pound gorilla sitting on the doorstep of county government, and its name is the Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB). | Read more

• GOP challengers site election-year politics
  Saturday, May 17, 2008
  In late March, three Republican candidates for county council came out together, signed a platform they vowed to keep and said they would quit if they broke their word upon being elected. | Read more

• FOLKS
  Thursday, May 15, 2008
  Oconee County Council Chairman George Blanchard addressed some of his Lake Keowee neighbors during Wednesday night's Friends of Lake Keowee Society (FOLKS) annual picnic. | Read more

• County to reconsider school budget
  Friday, May 2, 2008
  County officials will reconsider the School District of Oconee County (SDOC) budget on Monday but no one should be holding their breath, expecting a change of heart. | Read more

• County workers to get pay hikes
  Wages, capital projects still unresolved
  Thursday, May 1, 2008
  Oconee County employees will be getting raises this year, how much and in what form remains to be seen.
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• Squeaky wheel gets greased
  Treasurer gets more funds from budget panel
  Thursday, May 1, 2008
  Oconee County Treasurer Greg Nowell was the proverbial squeaky wheel Wednesday, and the county’s budget committee proved to have plenty of grease.
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• County detours Surrett’s CAT plan
  Thursday, May 1, 2008
  “You get $1 million in rolling stock, $500,000 in operating revenues and 23 new jobs. That’s what you get for $30,000.”
  — Al Babinicz, CAT Executive Director | Read more

• Costs hold key to hospital profits
  Revenues continue to lag
  Wednesday, April 30, 2008
  Oconee Medical Center (OMC) is making money the newfangled way … cost containment.
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• Council drawing line on new parks, tourism funding
  Wednesday, April 30, 2008
  Oconee County Council members like the county’s parks, and they think the Blue Ridge Arts Center is “a good thing.” | Read more

• County weighs selling bonds to pave roads
  One of several bond suggestions in the hopper
  Tuesday, April 29, 2008
  Among the many items Oconee County Budget and Finance members will tackle next week will be a list of capital improvement projects. | Read more