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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.
    | Read more
  • 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.
    | Read more
  • 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
  • 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
 
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