Podcasts about Oconee County

Sheriff Brian Patterson steps away from the badge and into the microphone full time as Sasquatch Odyssey explodes beyond anything he ever imagined. Part Five picks up with the podcast in full swing, and the witnesses are lining up from every corner of the South and beyond to finally tell the stories they have been carrying in silence for decades.It starts in the mountains of northeast Georgia with a seventy-three-year-old retired logger named Earl Hutchins, a man who kept his mouth shut for forty-five years about what stepped out of the timber near Clayton in the fall of nineteen seventy-eight. His story breaks something open.The emails start flooding in from across the region, and Patterson finds himself recording encounter after encounter from witnesses who never had anyone willing to listen. A retired schoolteacher from Ellijay describes the thing that came screaming out of the Chattahoochee National Forest and changed the way she felt about the woods forever. A fishing guide from Everglades City recounts the night a pair of glowing eyes tracked him across the water in the Ten Thousand Islands. A teenage girl in Oconee County, South Carolina watched something unfold from a rhododendron thicket while her daddy's bluetick hound shook itself half to death against her leg.The stories stretch across state lines and keep coming. Arkansas. Tennessee. Virginia. A coon hunter and his cousin tree something in the Ouachitas that no lantern light should ever have revealed. A family of four flees a Cherokee National Forest campsite at three in the morning. A state trooper on Skyline Drive watches something cross a two-lane highway in three strides and never tells a soul.Then the podcast goes national and the picture gets bigger. A Lummi Nation elder speaks of the Ts'emekwes his people have known for thousands of years. A woman in the Hocking Hills of Ohio locks eyes with something standing between the trees in broad daylight and never hikes again. From Louisiana to Alaska to Hawaii, the encounters pile up, and Patterson starts to understand that this is not a regional phenomenon. It is everywhere. When the show crosses international borders, the scope becomes staggering. A First Nations man from British Columbia reminds the world that his people gave us the word Sasquatch in the first place. A Russian researcher describes a shape moving through snow in the Pamir Mountains. An Australian prospector watches something vanish from a waterhole in the outback. Sherpas in Nepal, scientists in China, guides in the Amazon — every culture, every continent, every corner of the wild world has a name for what lives in the places humans do not go. But it is the deep encounters that change everything. A hospice nurse in rural Kentucky describes the night something appeared at her dying husband's window and hummed him into his final moment of peace. A lost hiker in the Gila Wilderness receives images in her mind that lead her back to safety. A former Army Ranger wakes paralyzed in the Big Thicket while something rifles through his thoughts like pages in a book. These are the stories that keep Patterson up at night and force him to ask whether these creatures are something far stranger and far more profound than anyone has been willing to consider. By the end of Part Five, Patterson is two years into full-time podcasting with over three hundred interviews behind him and patterns emerging from the noise. The creatures follow corridors. They move with the seasons.They choose when to be seen. And a small but undeniable percentage of encounters suggest something beyond biology, beyond what any scientific framework can currently explain. The podcast has crossed a million downloads. The community is growing. The world is slowly waking up. And somewhere out in the deep woods, something is watching back.Email BrianGet Our FREE NewsletterGet Brian's Books Leave Us A VoicemailVisit Our WebsiteBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/sasquatch-odyssey--4839697/support.

Sheriff Brian Patterson steps away from the badge and into the microphone full time as Sasquatch Odyssey explodes beyond anything he ever imagined. Part Five picks up with the podcast in full swing, and the witnesses are lining up from every corner of the South and beyond to finally tell the stories they have been carrying in silence for decades.It starts in the mountains of northeast Georgia with a seventy-three-year-old retired logger named Earl Hutchins, a man who kept his mouth shut for forty-five years about what stepped out of the timber near Clayton in the fall of nineteen seventy-eight. His story breaks something open.The emails start flooding in from across the region, and Patterson finds himself recording encounter after encounter from witnesses who never had anyone willing to listen. A retired schoolteacher from Ellijay describes the thing that came screaming out of the Chattahoochee National Forest and changed the way she felt about the woods forever. A fishing guide from Everglades City recounts the night a pair of glowing eyes tracked him across the water in the Ten Thousand Islands. A teenage girl in Oconee County, South Carolina watched something unfold from a rhododendron thicket while her daddy's bluetick hound shook itself half to death against her leg.The stories stretch across state lines and keep coming. Arkansas. Tennessee. Virginia. A coon hunter and his cousin tree something in the Ouachitas that no lantern light should ever have revealed. A family of four flees a Cherokee National Forest campsite at three in the morning. A state trooper on Skyline Drive watches something cross a two-lane highway in three strides and never tells a soul.Then the podcast goes national and the picture gets bigger. A Lummi Nation elder speaks of the Ts'emekwes his people have known for thousands of years. A woman in the Hocking Hills of Ohio locks eyes with something standing between the trees in broad daylight and never hikes again. From Louisiana to Alaska to Hawaii, the encounters pile up, and Patterson starts to understand that this is not a regional phenomenon. It is everywhere. When the show crosses international borders, the scope becomes staggering. A First Nations man from British Columbia reminds the world that his people gave us the word Sasquatch in the first place. A Russian researcher describes a shape moving through snow in the Pamir Mountains. An Australian prospector watches something vanish from a waterhole in the outback. Sherpas in Nepal, scientists in China, guides in the Amazon — every culture, every continent, every corner of the wild world has a name for what lives in the places humans do not go. But it is the deep encounters that change everything. A hospice nurse in rural Kentucky describes the night something appeared at her dying husband's window and hummed him into his final moment of peace. A lost hiker in the Gila Wilderness receives images in her mind that lead her back to safety. A former Army Ranger wakes paralyzed in the Big Thicket while something rifles through his thoughts like pages in a book. These are the stories that keep Patterson up at night and force him to ask whether these creatures are something far stranger and far more profound than anyone has been willing to consider. By the end of Part Five, Patterson is two years into full-time podcasting with over three hundred interviews behind him and patterns emerging from the noise. The creatures follow corridors. They move with the seasons.They choose when to be seen. And a small but undeniable percentage of encounters suggest something beyond biology, beyond what any scientific framework can currently explain. The podcast has crossed a million downloads. The community is growing. The world is slowly waking up. And somewhere out in the deep woods, something is watching back.

The Cheat Sheet is The Murder Sheet's segment breaking down weekly news and updates in some of the murder cases we cover. In this episode, we'll talk about cases from Indiana, Michigan, South Carolina, Georgia, and the United States of America as a whole.A Facebook post from the Fishers Police Department on the disappearance of Hailey Buzbee: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1CDwqcAe1v/The Indianapolis Star's report on three missing teenagers in Indiana's Hamilton County, including Hailey Buzbee (two of the missing juveniles have since been found safe): https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2026/01/12/three-teen-girls-in-hamilton-county-have-gone-missing-since-beginning-of-year-2026-hailey-buzbee/88140471007/The Hamilton County Reporter's article on the disappearance of Hailey Buzbee: https://readthereporter.com/fishers-pd-provides-update-on-hailey-buzbee-case/An article from WIBC on the disappearance of Hailey Buzbee: https://wibc.com/853286/fishers-police-search-for-missing-17-year-old-now-endangered/An article from WISH-TV on the disappearance of Hailey Buzbee: https://www.wishtv.com/news/local-news/update-regarding-hailey-buzbee-missing-since-jan-5th/If you see Hailey Buzbee, call 911 or call the Fishers Police Department at 317-773-1282. Please share articles about Hailey's story or send this episode to your friends and social network so we can keep raising awareness about this disappearance. You can also send an anonymous tip to Silver Lining of Hope here: silverliningofhope.com/haileyPeople Magazine's report on the murders of Larry and Sandra Moore: https://people.com/sc-couple-70s-found-dead-homicide-isolated-11889141Fox 10 Phoenix's report on the murders of Larry and Sandra Moore: https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/retired-south-carolina-couple-found-dead-homicide-homeIf you have any information on the murder of the Moores, call the Oconee County Sheriff's Office at 864-638-4111.WXYZ's report on Desmond Burks and his decision to plead guilty in the murder of Dr. Devon Hoover: https://www.wxyz.com/news/desmond-burks-pleads-guilty-in-murder-of-detroit-neurosurgeon-dr-devon-hooverA report from ABC News on declining murder rates in the United States: https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/homicide-rate-declines-sharply-dozens-us-cities-new-129445976Find discounts for Murder Sheet listeners here: https://murdersheetpodcast.com/discountsCheck out our upcoming book events and get links to buy tickets here: https://murdersheetpodcast.com/eventsOrder our book on Delphi here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/shadow-of-the-bridge-the-delphi-murders-and-the-dark-side-of-the-american-heartland-aine-cain/21866881?ean=9781639369232Or here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Shadow-of-the-Bridge/Aine-Cain/9781639369232Or here: https://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Bridge-Murders-American-Heartland/dp/1639369236Join our Patreon here! https://www.patreon.com/c/murdersheetSupport The Murder Sheet by buying a t-shirt here: https://www.murdersheetshop.com/Check out more inclusive sizing and t-shirt and merchandising options here: https://themurdersheet.dashery.com/Send tips to murdersheet@gmail.com.The Murder Sheet is a production of Mystery Sheet LLC.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

H3-S1-Fri1/23/26-TCJS-Charlie James interviews Justin Powell , Secretary of Transportation for SCDOT 00:00 All right, coming up tomorrow night, it is going to start getting very, very nasty here in South Carolina. We are advising everyone to stay home unless you absolutely have to travel. Joining us right now is Justin Powell, the Secretary of Transportation for the South Carolina Department of Transportation. Mr. Powell, welcome to the program. Have you had a busy week? Thank you, Charlie. No, it's been absolutely busy all across South Carolina as we get ready for this. Well, it could be a 00:28 very significant and historic ice storm coming to the upstate. long ago did you guys start preparing for this? Now we started efforts earlier this week. You know, we had had an event come through this past weekend where we thought we were going to have some freezing rain and we already were already at it. So our crews really started moving into action. The past two days they have been pre-treating the interstate. So you've been seeing a spray brine down on the interstate's primary routes and then 00:57 routes where people are getting to critical facilities like a hospital. So we've been working hard at it over the past several days and then we will start going into 24 hour operations in many parts of the state tonight and starting tomorrow as well, where folks will be out there working to fight the high, big amount of ice that we're anticipating might be falling in the upstate as Weatherport said, at least a half inch in ice, which is really, really. 01:26 That is significant. usually we have these things that happen, they just affect the upstate, they just affect the Midlands, or they just affect the low country. How do you, I mean, this is, practically everybody in the state's gonna be affected by this thing in one way or another. That's gotta be a massive undertaking. Yeah, no, it's an all hands on deck for the 3,000 men and women who have frontline responsibilities at DOT in terms of maintaining our highways. 01:51 So we've been working from the coast all the way up to the mountains of Oconee County getting ready for this storm. So it's been all hands. We've been, not only everybody on our own team working at it, obviously we've been bringing in some uh contract resources. So we have contractors also working on the interstates, putting down brine. We are bringing in uh crews to cut and toss uh any tree limbs that might fall. 02:19 on that, but it's just a recognition of the team we have at DOT that they're going to be willing to uh stay away from their families, working some really cold and hard temperatures that I think all of us are going to be dealing with soon and then putting out there to try to get the roads reopened as quickly as possible. How many trucks do we have in South Carolina that are able to spread brine, sand, calcium chloride, all of that stuff? 02:44 So it's about 1200 pieces of equipment that we have mobilized and we're bringing in extra resources in terms of uh those contractors to help us get there. so, you what I see is we'll be working to try to get the ice off the roads. It'll be a challenge just because it's going to get very, very cold in the upstate in the coming days. then, but we'll bring in our crews from the coast and for any trees that are down, we'll start bring them in with chainsaws to cut and clear the roads as fast as we can. 03:14 Is there any conditions to where you guys would go, all right, it's too dangerous for even us to get out here? I I think we're going to do, we're going to go out as long as we can, but obviously there are going to be opportunities when we get into the actual event. Well, you know, my first priority is the safety of our employees, the safety of the motoring public. So, you know, we may have to look at that and that applies to the traveling public as well in terms of making sure that if it's 03:40 It's cold and icy out, know, four wheel driv ...

A homicide investigation is currently in progress following the discovery of a deceased couple in their 70s at their residence in Oconee County, South CarolinaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to Oconee's Own, a podcast production of The Oconee Enterprise. In this episode, we speak with the Oconee County Board of Elections and Registration Chairman Jay Hanley about the new consolidated precincts in the county to get you prepared for Election Day on November 4. You can find the Board of Elections and Registration website at https://www.oconeecountyga.gov/1463/Elections-Registration and you can check your voter registration at https://mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/ Our publication can be found at OconeeEnterprise.com. We hope you will join us each Tuesday to learn more about Oconee's own community members. For questions about sponsoring an episode, podcast commercials or general podcast questions, please email Podcast@OconeeEnterprise.com. 

Welcome to Oconee's Own, a podcast production of The Oconee Enterprise. In this episode, we speak with the Oconee County Library Branch Manager James Mitchell about what his role entails and how people can get involved. You can find the Oconee County Library website at https://athenslibrary.org/location/oconee/ You can find our publication at OconeeEnterprise.com. We hope you will join us each Tuesday to learn more about Oconee's own community members. For questions about sponsoring an episode, podcast commercials or general podcast questions, please email Podcast@OconeeEnterprise.com. 

Oconee County Schools has a new superintendent. Oconee County has more greenspace on the way.It is National Newspapers Week.Subscribe online at ⁠OconeeEnterprise.com⁠

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It is qualifying week for the four Oconee County municipalities. Nathalee Simoneau brings another update on the ongoing issues with the mold concerns brought to Oconee County Schools.Bogart Station 7 has a new fire truck.Subscribe online at ⁠OconeeEnterprise.com⁠

Welcome to Oconee's Own, a podcast production of The Oconee Enterprise. In this episode, we sit down with Oconee County Emergency Management Agency Director C.J. Worden to learn more about what his job entails and how he prepares the county for an emergency. You can find more information about Oconee County EMA and sign up for CodeRED safety and weather alerts at https://www.oconeecountyga.gov/158/Emergency-Management. You can find our publication at OconeeEnterprise.com. We hope you will join us each Tuesday to learn more about Oconee's own community members. If you have any questions about sponsoring an episode, podcast advertisements or general podcast suggestions, please email Podcast@OconeeEnterprise.com.

Welcome to Oconee's Own, a podcast production of The Oconee Enterprise. In this episode, we chat with Oconee County natives Chris Mobley and Hunter Grayson about all things Oconee County! Chris can be found on Facebook at @chris.mobley and Instagram at @christopher_mobley430. Hunter can be found on Facebook and Instagram at @HunterGraysonMusic. You can find our publication at OconeeEnterprise.com. Please email any advertising, sponsored episode or general podcast questions and suggestions to ⁠⁠Podcast@OconeeEnterprise.com⁠. 

Welcome to Oconee's Own, a podcast production of The Oconee Enterprise. In this episode, we sit down with Oconee County Sheriff James Hale to learn more about his upbringing in Oconee County, his career and his favorite music. You can find our publication at OconeeEnterprise.com. Please email any advertising, sponsored episode or general podcast questions and suggestions to ⁠⁠Podcast@OconeeEnterprise.com⁠. 

Welcome to Oconee's Own, a podcast production of The Oconee Enterprise. In this special Father's Day episode, Community Engagement Director and Podcast Host Caitlin Farmer interviews her Father, Shawn Farmer, where he discusses music, podcasting, his career, how their family ended up in Oconee County and Georgia Football. You can find our publication at OconeeEnterprise.com. Please email any advertising, sponsored episode or general podcast questions and suggestions to ⁠⁠Podcast@OconeeEnterprise.com⁠. You can find Shawn's podcast, “Re-Vinyl” at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/re-vinyl/id1747597217

Welcome to Oconee's Own, a podcast production of The Oconee Enterprise. This week's episode features an interview with The Oconee Enterprise Community Engagement Director and Podcast Host Caitlin Farmer, where she discusses how her roles at The OE have changed, what she's been working on in her role and her favorite restaurants in Oconee County. You can find our publication at OconeeEnterprise.com. Please email any questions for Caitlin and any podcast questions or suggestions to ⁠⁠Podcast@OconeeEnterprise.com⁠. To fill out the Google Form from The OE's Community Listening Session, visit https://forms.gle/kEUHZc3HxvPc2GtK8.  

Send us a textTucked away in the northwest corner of South Carolina, Oconee County reveals itself as an undiscovered treasure where natural beauty intertwines with captivating history. As I wandered through this Blue Ridge Mountain paradise, I uncovered the poignant legend of Issaquena, a brave Choctaw maiden who risked everything for love, leaving her name on what is now a magnificent 200-foot waterfall – just one of over 300 cascades dotting the county's landscape.My journey took me to Patriots Hall in Walhalla, where the sobering story of Staff Sergeant Lewis "Slim" Watkins unfolded. This local hero posthumously received the Congressional Medal of Honor after sacrificing his life to shield fellow Marines from a grenade during the Korean War. His medal rests there today, a testament to extraordinary courage in the face of certain death.Perhaps nothing captures Oconee's quirky character better than Stumphouse Tunnel – an ambitious 1850s railroad project abandoned after consuming over a million dollars, only to find new purpose a century later as Clemson University's unexpected blue cheese aging facility. This "tunnel to nowhere" now welcomes visitors curious about its unusual history.The county's spirit runs deep – quite literally – at Chattooga Bell Farm Distillery, where passionate master distiller Ben Wesley crafts exceptional rums and whiskeys from fruit grown steps away from the stills. Similarly, Two Horse Distillery, founded by former rodeo champions, honors their western legacy through carefully crafted spirits using mountain spring water.With four stunning lakes spanning thousands of acres, miles of hiking trails through ancient forests, and Class 3 and 4 rapids on the Chattooga River (yes, from the movie "Deliverance"), outdoor enthusiasts find endless adventure possibilities. Yet what struck me most was how every corner of Oconee County tells a story – Cherokee names etched on roadways, German churches standing since the 1850s, and prohibition-era moonshine caves hidden among the hills.Experience this remarkable destination where, as I discovered, "the US has stories everywhere – you just have to look where the tour buses don't bother going." Share your own Oconee adventures or discoveries from your travels by visiting thetravelingfool.com.Please subscribe and leave a review on I-Tunes. Feel free to drop me an email I would love to hear from you editor@thetravellingfool.com You can sign up for my email list Past Podcasts Follow me on social media FaceBook Twitter now X LinkedInInstagram

Presented by Kaiser PermanenteWe go over the results of day two of the GHSA soccer championships and prep your brackets for Day 3Oconee County Girls Head Coach Judson Hamby drops by to talk about one of the best matches you'll see all week and what the win means for the program

Welcome in for another edition of the Morning Espresso from the SDH Network, brought to you by Oglethorpe University, Atlanta's premier undergraduate learning experience and soccer powerhouse. It could be one of the most lucrative matches in the history of the game in the Europa League final as Manchester United will face Tottenham Hotspur with a Champions League spot on the line. The winner could earn over $130 million by being in next season's Champions League. For Spurs, it could mean Ange Postecoglu stays in his job as manager. For Ruben Amorim and Manchester United, it could mean they can go out in the transfer market and spend a bit while hopefully not having to lay anyone else off. In Spain on Sunday, the Clasico between Barcelona and Real Madrid could either essentially decide the title for Barca or open the door wide open against for Madrid to come back in the final three weeks of the season. The remaining schedule definitely favors Madrid, and a win would put them only one point behind Barcelona. In Portugal, if there is a winner between the eternal rivals Benfica and Sporting, that team will have the head-to-head tiebreaker in the league standings with one round of matches to go. Both teams are currently tied on points. A draw would make the final weekend very interesting with lots of scoreboard watching. In MLS this weekend, the big game is in Chester as 2nd-place Philadelphia hosts Eastern Conference leaders Columbus. Charlotte goes to Nashville, Austin goes to Cincinnati, and Miami travels to Minnesota. Sunday Night Soccer is a great one with Supporters' Shield leaders Vancouver hosting LAFC.We'll get the weekend started at Soldier Field as Atlanta United faces the Chicago Fire. Pregame coverage starts at 1:30 on 92.9 The Game with Abe Gordon and Madison Crews, Mike Conti and I will take over ahead of a 2:40pm kickoff. In girls high school soccer semifinals last night, we had both 3A semifinals on the SDH Network as Jefferson and Oconee County booked their spots in next week's final. Buford and Roswell have a chance to finish unbeaten as they advanced to their respective finals next week. Boys' high school semifinals tonight all over the state of Georgia before next week's championship game at three different sites.

The 3A girls semifinals take center stage on the SDH Network tonight as we'll have both matches available with radio calls starting at 6pm. Whitewater hosts back-to-back state champions Oconee County in Fayetteville while Jefferson hosts Cherokee Bluff. Go to soccerdownhere.net and click Listen, then select your match or bounce back and forth.Welcome in for another edition of the Morning Espresso from the SDH Network, brought to you by Oglethorpe University, Atlanta's premier undergraduate learning experience and soccer powerhouse.PSG has made their second Champions League final, defeating Arsenal 3-1 on aggregate, 2-1 yesterday in Paris. Luis Enrique has been the best manager in the world this season and he has remade this team in his image and achieved incredible success. They have to go through the 3-time champions Inter to lift the trophy, and remarkably, it's the first time these teams have ever met in official competition.The goalkeepers have been stars in the semifinals. Yann Sommer made a couple of mind-blowing saves on Lamine Yamal of Barcelona, Gianluigi Donnarumma turned into Superman as soon as he saw the English flag again and also stood on his head to lead PSG. I disagree with Mikel Arteta when he says that Arsenal were the better team in the competition, but I do think he's getting unfairly dragged in the media. He took a team without a healthy #9 as far as he could this season. They have to get that position right to compete with the best in England and in Europe. He's one of the best managers in the world today, give him the right squad to truly give him a chance to win a major trophy, I don't think he's had that yet and has done as much as he could.MLS won 15 of the 16 Round of 32 matches in the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup over the past two days. The Pittsburgh Riverhounds needed a stoppage time goal to upset NYCFC to keep it from being a clean sweep. Philadelphia needed penalties to get past Indy Eleven, multiple games needed extra time, Austin was 2-0 down at home to El Paso but stormed back to win 3-2. Good news on the business front for MLS as well, their sponsorship revenues are up double digits in 2025 compared to the same timeframe in 2024. 5 clubs were named in Sportico's Most Valuable Soccer Clubs in the World's Top 20, with 19 clubs making the Top 50, the most of any league in the world. While revenues aren't matching the top European clubs at the moment, security of the format along with top-notch infrastructure and ownership collaboration and cooperation have given MLS clubs a strong floor from which to grow their valuations. Arsene Wenger made the news yesterday, saying that his proposed change to the offside rule is imminent. Based on the way these rules have been altered in the past, that's not true. The trials of the new rule (essentially going from if any part of the body is offside then it's an infraction to if any part of the body is onside then it's good, giving the attacker a body length) have not been successful and more are needed to see if this gives the attack too much of an advantage. I do believe that the rule needs to be tweaked in light of video replay being used, but more testing is needed rather than something rash. Plenty more in the video and podcast editions of the Espresso, please check them out. More to come tomorrow morning on the SDH Network.

It's Day Four of Round One and we go through the scores and brackets to get you ready for the weekendMike Petite, head coach at Callaway, talks about the successes and challenges of coaching both programsChris Romano, boys head coach at Oconee County, talks about his season and matchup in Watkinsville as well

Welcome to Oconee's Own, a podcast production of The Oconee Enterprise. Oconee's Own will feature interview-style episodes with Oconee County community members. Our first full episode will launch on April 29, 2025, and we hope you will come back each Tuesday for a new episode. You can find our publication at OconeeEnterprise.com. Please email any podcast questions or suggestions to Podcast@OconeeEnterprise.com

Oconee County and Athens Academy football have officially played their last games of the season. North Oconee dominated Ware County. Prince Avenue also rolled over their playoff foe. Catch up with North and Oconee flag football programs. Subscribe online at ⁠OconeeEnterprise.com⁠

Oconee County and North Oconee Cheerleaders went to state. North Oconee defeated Eagles Landing at home. Oconee County defeated Westside-Augusta on the road. Subscribe online at ⁠OconeeEnterprise.com⁠

Oconee County does not have a lead issue in the water service lines. The Backyard BBQ Brawl raised money for Oconee Area Resource Council. Striplings annual hay bale decoration contest raised money for ESP. Subscribe online at OconeeEnterprise.com

Hear the latest for all of the races found on Oconee County ballots. Visit our latest coverage at OconeeEnterprise.com and Subscribe today.

Oconee County and Prince Avenue both saw thriller shootouts under the Friday night lights. The North Oconee High School swim team had its first meet of the season on Saturday. North Oconee's flag football team extended their winning streak to six games. Find your polling location here. Subscribe online at ⁠OconeeEnterprise.com⁠

North Oconee controls its own destiny. Prince Avenue softball is headed to the post season. Oconee County and North Oconee volleyball continue to win. Our Athlete of the week is Harrison Faulkner. Subscribe online at OconeeEnterprise.com

Oconee County Schools has released their Teachers of the Year. Subscribe online at OconeeEnterprise.com for all the latest Oconee County news! Use code SEPT24 for 20% off a one-year subscription during the month of September.

An Oconee County resident filed a lawsuit District Attorney Deborah Gonzalez for blocking his access to two Facebook pages connected to the DA. The municipalities of Bishop and Bogart are ushering in the fall with day-long celebrations this month.  Meet our farmer of the month, Jeremiah Peters. Subscribe online at ⁠OconeeEnterprise.com⁠ Use code SEPT24 for 20% off a one-year subscription during the month of September.

The Oconee County Board of Education voted to establish school resource officers in all 12 OCS schools. An Oconee Resident has filed suit to temporarily halt voter registration in Oconee County. Miriam Johnson has penned a memoir Subscribe online at ⁠OconeeEnterprise.com⁠ Use code SEPT24 for 20% off a one-year subscription during the month of September.

Westminster Christian is now 3-0. Oconee County dropped their third game to Morgan County. Prince Avenue lost a heartbreaker to Blessed Trinity. Subscribe online at OconeeEnterprise.com Enter promo code SEPT24 at the bottom of the page for 20% off a year subscription.

The USPS is proposing another change that will negatively effect Oconee County. The Commercial Bank turns 100 years old today. See the latest restaurant health scores. Subscribe online at OconeeEnterprise.com

Fat Boy doesn't know why Labor Day is a holiday, but he'll take it, plus Hey Dude shoes that glow in the dark, why  man? Headlines with a dummy in Oconee County pulling a knife on a deputy before he got on a bus Sports with a new Vince McMahon doc announced for Netflix

Oconee County Little League's season has ended. Get a preview of the Backyard Brawl. Oconee County faces North Oconee in volleyball. Subscribe online at OconeeEnterprise.com

The City of Bogart will keep a rollback millage rate. A GoFundMe has been set up to help a woman who died while metal detecting. You can donate here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/honoring-ashley-griffin-support-her-childrens-future?lang=en_US&utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link Did you ever notice Oconee County doesn't have the classic red fire hydrants? Subscribe online at OconeeEnterprise.com

Learn more about historical tourism opportunities in Oconee County. Check out page 50 of The Oconee County Guide for a full list of places to visit. Subscribe online to The Oconee Enterprise at OconeeEnterprise.com

Over the weekend, a swastika was painted on an Oconee County welcome sign. Oconee County Schools will be holding three public hearings for a tax increase. Those hearings will be on July 1 at 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. and on July 8 at 6 p.m. All three meetings will be held at the Instructional Support Center at 71 North Main Street in Watkinsville. A closed trail at Harris Shoals Park will not reopen until August of 2025. Subscribe online at OconeeEnterprise.com

This week, residents of Oconee County received The Oconee County Guide. Learn more about what the guide has to offer. Find a digital version on our website where you can also subscribe to our weekly newspaper at OconeeEnterprise.com

I happen to think having Atlantan Chase Oliver on the presidential ballot as the Libertarian party candidate this November takes Georgia off the table for Biden/Harris. Hear why I believe the actions of Mayor Andre Dickens and the majority on Atlanta's city council have cost the President a key chunk of the state's grassroots liberal activists' support. I spoke with Mishael White, aiming to represent district 81 in the Georgia House, today. He's up against a MAGA ne'er do well named Noelle Kahaian, whose platform consists of Trumpian platitudes but little substantively to address any state legislative goals for the district. White, on the other hand, had plenty to discuss with me by way of tangible solutions for his district. Yesterday's guest, Seth Taylor, revealed one potential "GOP plant" disguised as a Democrat who won the party's Congressional primary for the 11th Congressional district. I spoke of two others in Oconee County, but wait: there's more.

Seth Taylor, a Fulton County Democratic Party captain and 2024 DNC delegate "outed" 11th Congressional district Democratic Party nominee Katy Stamper as a "GOP plant." If she isn't, she's at the very least an anti-trans "secure the border" moderate. Then again, she lives in Cherokee County, where a school board vice chair is also openly anti-trans and nothing was done about that ,so ... While discussing the Cherokee School Board, Seth pointed to a 2022 story in Pro Publica where another primary winner, Republican Noelle Kahaian, was instrumental in running off that school system's hired-but-never-employed DEI candidate. At least they're consistent. Oh ,and what of the two Oconee County "Democrats" (who aren't) running for county-level offices? Do local ad state Dems need to do a better job vetting (or finding) candidates? Lastly, Chase Oliver - and not RFK Jr. nor Donald Trump - secured the Libertarian party's Presidential nomination over The weekend, and I happen to think that's bad news for Biden/Harris in Georgia, at minimum. He's under 40 (37), gay, pro-choice, pro-pot, pro-"ceasefire now" oh and anti-"Cop City". Good luck convincing me that combination doesn't win over some of the same grassroots activists Democrats usually rely on.

The City of Bogart is continuing the process of updating their building code to align with Oconee County. The Planning Commission is recommending a denial for a duplex proposal just north of Watkinsville. The Town of North High Shoals is being sued. Today is your last chance to vote in the General Election Primary. Polls are open from 7a.m.-7p.m. You can find your polling information at mvp.sos.ga.gov View our election guide and election coverage at OconeeEnterprise.com where you can also subscribe anytime.

Oconee County sports are on fire this off season. There were contenders in Baseball, Soccer, Tennis, Track, and more. Subscribe to stay up to date at OconeeEnterprise.com

The North Oconee Gym Titans are state champions for th 5th year in a row! Additionally, North Oconee and Oconee County gymnast won individual gold medals. Soccer playoffs continue. Get updates on Lacrosse, Tennis, and Baseball as well. Today is your FINAL day to subscribe to ensure you will receive our 2024 Primary Election Guide. This has 9 pages of information about candidates, ballot questions, where and when to vote, sample ballots and more. Subscribe online at OconeeEnterprise.com

Hear an update on the Akhil Crumption sentancing hearing. What does everyone ask a 100 year old? How did you make it to 100? What is your advice? Hear the answer and more. Subscribe online to The Oconee Enterprise at OconeeEnterprise.com for this an all the latest news in Oconee County.

It has been a big week in sports. The North Oconee Boys Basketball team will be featured on the front page of the newspaper, as well as on the front page of the sports section. The Oconee County Boys and Girls Soccer teams are off to a dominating start. Prince Avenue Boys and Girls Tennis will face Loganville today at OVP. Oconee County Little League Opening Day was rained out. Note: Tonight, March 11, there is an Oconee County Board of Education Meeting. In the March 7 edition of The Oconee Enterprise, a legal notice was published that read: “Notice is given that there will be introduced at the 2024 regular session of the General Assembly of Georgia a bill to reconstitute the Board of Education of Oconee County; and for other purposes.” Our understanding is that this matter will be discussed at tonight's meeting although it is not on the agenda. We have not received a copy of what the legal ad references nor have we found it on the General Assembly of Georgia page or Oconee County Schools website. Subscribe to The Oconee Enterprise online at OconeeEnterprise.com where you can also request home delivery.

In top news this week, the Oconee County Library has opened their new location at Wire Park. Election qualifying is underway for Federal, State, and local offices. Oconee County is working to expand broadband access. A case dropped by the District Attorney's office was resurrected and tried in the Alcovy District Court this week. For all of this and more, subscribe to The Oconee Enterprise at OconeeEnterprise.com

Workforce development was a major topic of conversation when Matt Martin and Erika Bell recently met with business and community leaders in Pickens County and Oconee County, South Carolina. In this episode, Martin and Bell discussed what they learned during their visit. Two local workforce development leaders — Jeromy Arnett and Ray Farley of Alliance Pickens — also shared their stories. Full transcript and related links: https://www.richmondfed.org/podcasts/speaking_of_the_economy/2024/speaking_2024_01_24_workforce_development

There have been a number of strange disappearances and deaths recently in Oconee County, located in the Blue Mountain foothills. The latest of these being in 2019 when 26 year old Faith Roach was last seen getting into a van with an unidentified male. Almost 5 year later, she has yet to be found. Also, If you're in the mood for a good scare, then the Lands End Road will be sure to live up to its reputation as the most haunted road in the state. And later, if you've had the pleasure of spending time in Columbia, you'll know that the city prides itself on history, entertainment, and college football. But what about its abundance of ghosts? Lands End Light caught on camera: https://youtu.be/ubEX-mSy5TI?si=M-661G8aCvJFbE-2 paranormalitymag.com/spookshow --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scspookshow/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scspookshow/support

Luna Shark Productions continues its mission of getting the story straight and giving voice to victims by presenting part two of “A Mystery Mountain: What Happened to April Jones?” So much has happened in the Murdaugh case over the past week. It's honestly mind-blowing the twists and turns this story continues to take. We'll get into ALL of this very soon. However, in this special episode of True Sunlight Podcast, Eric Alan Daume reports from the Blue Ridge mountains of South Carolina and continues his investigation into April's death, as well as the deaths of Kevin Craig and John Evans and the disappearance of Faith Roach. While in the middle of reporting on this compelling story — and as more and more doesn't seem to add up — Eric finds himself caught off-guard by grim news, deepening the mystery of these Oconee County tragedies. Eric Alan's reporting is not only thorough and fearless, it's compelling and will have you on the edge of your seat as he grapples with the unexpected and confronts the challenges we've all experienced in our reporting on true crime stories. In this latest episode, he has invited all of us behind the scenes on his journey to get at the truth about these mysterious deaths and disappearances in Oconee County.  It's been a while since we first introduced “A Mountain Mystery.” We invite you to return to True Sunlight Episode #15 to relisten to Part One. And find Eric Alan's YouTube channel where he has published a number of video episodes on this spellbinding saga Thank you to ALL OF YOU for listening and for helping us shine the light on this important case.  Learn more about Eric Alan and his Compelling True Crime Documentaries here: https://www.youtube.com/@Eric-Alan Join Luna Shark Premium today at Lunashark.Supercast.com. Premium Members also get access to searchable case files, written articles with documents, case photos, episode videos and exclusive live experiences with our hosts on lunasharkmedia.com all in one place. CLICK HERE to learn more: https://bit.ly/3BdUtOE. And for those just wanting ad-free listening without all the other great content, we now offer ad-free listening on Apple Podcast through a subscription to Luna Shark Plus on the Apple Podcasts App. SUNscribe to our free email list to get alerts on bonus episodes, calls to action, new shows and updates. CLICK HERE to learn more: https://bit.ly/3KBMJcP And a special thank you to our sponsors: Microdose.com, PELOTON, and VUORI. Use promo code "MANDY" for a special offer! For current & accurate updates: TrueSunlight.com facebook.com/TrueSunlightPodcast/ Instagram.com/TrueSunlightPod Twitter.com/mandymatney Twitter.com/elizfarrell youtube.com/@LunaSharkMedia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices