Early voting for the November 2nd elections is underway in Clarke County, where ESPLOST 2021, or education special purpose local option sales tax, is on the ballot, as well as some municipal seats in Winterville.

In Oconee County, a TSPLOST measure and some municipal seats in Watkinsville and North High Shoals are on the ballot. The City of Watkinsville is also voting for Mayor.

Early voting ends in on October 29th.

For sample ballots and information about polling locations, visit accgov.com, or the elections and registration page on oconeecounty.com.

Georgia’s teacher pension budget is on a $100 billion “financial roll” according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

After a difficult year of pandemic struggles, the Teacher’s Retirement System of Georgia which covers about 400,000 retired public school, university and technical college educators reported a 58% jump from stocks and other investments.

This resulted in a big improvement of about 92% in assets needed to pay future benefits.

The Georgia State Patrol is investigating after two serious accidents on West Broad Street, one involving the death of a pedestrian. Troopers from Post 32 in Athens responded to the scene where 59-year old Glenn Stevenson was killed after he was struck by a pickup truck shortly before 9 o’ clock Wednesday night. According to a media release, Stevenson was not in a crosswalk at the time of the accident and he was wearing dark clothing.  No charges are expected to be filed against the driver who remained at the scene of the accident.