VOSO - Voice Of South Oconee 12/3/2009Join your fellow south Oconee County residents at the McPhail Angus farm* at 7pm on Thursday, December 3
rd for an information forum hosted by VOSO. The subject will be the recent recommendation for sewers in south Oconee
No Oconee County Tax RollbackIn the face of claims by Nowell that Oconee citizens are being overtaxed, other councilmen, newly-elected Paul Corbeil specifically, have maintained that the problem is one of under-spending and not over-collecting. Statistics for fiscal 2007 show Oconeeās total expenditures were $39.7 million, or $7.5 million less than revenues.
UPSTATE FOREVER PROTECTION OF ROSE HILL FARMSRose Hill Farms includes seven tributaries of Oconee Creek along with access to the 50 foot high Lee Falls in Sumter National Forest. The privately owned tract, which was approved for funding by the SC Conservation Bank Board in June of 2008, is a scenic buffer and wildlife corridor that consists of beautiful rolling hills and steep ravines descending down into hayfields and pastures.
South Oconee Growing Faster than Keowee AreaAccording to the number of households in each of the 11 Census tracts in Oconee, Census Tract 309, which represents the southern part of the county, grew by 54 percent during the past decade from 1990-2000