Highway 44 and rentals dominate BOC meeting

Roads and rentals – and their place in Lake Oconee’s long-term character and drawing power – bubbled up in discussions at the Putnam County Board of Commissioners’ first monthly meeting last Friday. The road in question is the state Department of Transportation’s proposed widening of Georgia 44, basically in the business district now extending two or three miles on either side of Lake Oconee,…