Regional Mormon hub calls Oconee home
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has built a new 25,000-square-foot house of worship in Oconee County to serve as headquarters for its Northeast Georgia churches, in an area from that runs from Rabun County in the mountains to Wilkes County near Clarks Hill Lake.

Couple bound for war-torn nations
An Oconee County couple has been training in August at the Mormon church headquarters in Utah to become directors of humanitarian aid efforts for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in war-torn Serbia and Bosnia.

Forum: Not trusting voters is real Prop 8 issue
Now that a federal district court has struck down Proposition 8, California's voter-approved definition of marriage as the union of a man and a woman, speculation turns to whether the decision will hold up on appeal. After all, Judge Vaughn Walker went the last mile in a 136-page opinion to back up his view that not a single rational argument in favor of traditional marriage deserves constitutional respect.

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