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Seeking approval for budget, millage

News Staff

Wednesday, August 16, 2023

The Elbert County Board of Education (BOE) and Elbert County Board of Commissioners are scheduled to meet Thursday to discuss the respective entities’ millage rate and budget for the coming year. The BOE is scheduled to meet at 6 p.m. for a third public hearing on the millage rate.

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City hears second complaint about police department

Rose Scoggins

Wednesday, August 16, 2023

For the second month in a row, the Elberton City Council heard complaints from a concerned citizen regarding actions of the Elberton Police Department (EPD) during Monday night’s regular council meeting.

Elberton Federal Savings and Loan Association was officially acquired by Occonee Financial Corporation July 31 and began operating as Oconee State Bank Aug. 1. (File photo by Scoggins)

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Elberton Federal officially acquired by Oconee Financial Corporation

News Staff

Wednesday, August 16, 2023

Oconee Financial Corporation announced Aug. 1 it completed its acquisition of Elberton Federal Savings and Loan Association of Elberton and its related common stock offering, in a conversion merger transaction, effective July 31.

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Hearing citizen concerns

Mark Wells

Wednesday, August 2, 2023

A handful of Elbert County residents attended the Elbert County Board of Education’s (BOE) two scheduled tax hearings July 27 after the district proposed a millage rate that would leave taxpayers seeing “an increase in property taxes by 20.25 percent over the roll-back rate percent.”

Students returned to school for the 2023-2024 academic year and to the former Beaverdam Elementary School Tuesday, Aug. 1. Now home of Elbert County Primary School (ECPS), the former Beaverdam Elementary is now being inhabited by students and teachers for the first time in over a decade. With the reopening of the new school, ECPS now houses students in Kindergarten, first grade and second grade. (Photo by Scoggins)

Rose Scoggins

Wednesday, July 26, 2023

Bowman Mayor Roberta Rice cast the tie-splitting vote to approve a variance that will allow 12 poultry houses on land located in the city limits before resigning, effective July 31, at the conclusion of Monday night’s council meeting.