Attorney Kevin Epps, vocal critic of Clarke and Oconee County District Attorney Deborah Gonzalez, is among the speakers at tonight’s meeting of the Oconee County Republican Party. Ja-Quon Stembridge, Chairman of the 10th District Teen Republicans, will also speak in the 6:30 session on the Oconee campus of Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center.
There is an evening meeting of the Oglethorpe County Zoning Board, a 6 o’clock session at the courthouse in Lexington.
Police in Commerce were, at last report, trying to track down a suspect in a case of financial card fraud: he allegedly committed the crime at a Dollar General store in Commerce.
The wife and two children of Hall County Sheriff’s Deputy Neal Holtzclaw were laid to rest after a weekend funeral in Gainesville: 29 year-old Avonlea Holtzclaw and her 5 and 6 year-old son and daughter were killed in a July 16 crash on Highway 365 in Habersham County, a wreck that claimed two other lives. It’s an accident that remains under investigation.
44 year-old Michelle Johnston is in jail in Hall County: she’s accused in last week’s robbery of a Truist bank branch in Gainesville. She surrendered to police the day after the robbery on Shallowford Road in Gainesville.