When Mark Miller was hired as Lake Oconee Academy’s new head baseball coach last summer, he pictured building a new culture around the program in his first year at the helm.

A Greensboro man who brought cognac and marijuana with him to the Lake Oconee Academy campus on Valentine’s Day was arrested by a Greene County deputy and ultimately charged with giving a false name to a law enforcement officer.

The Lake Oconee Academy girls basketball team won its third straight region championship last week with a dominant win over Towns County. The Lady Titans controlled the ball the entire game and defeated the Lady Indians 60-21 for the Region 8 final.

After winning the GHSA Class A Public state championship last year, the Lake Oconee Academy girls basketball team has set itself up in a similar position.

The Lake Oconee Academy baseball program is in its seventh season and traveled to the Academy for Classical Education (ACE) for its season opener this past Monday.

The Lake Oconee Academy Board of Governors held its first meeting Monday night since the lawsuit against the Greene County Board of Education over funding was resolved.

It’s already impressive enough for high school student-athletes to make it to the next level, but it’s even more impressive when a group of student-athletes at the same school get recruited for the same sport.

Hailey Heinen, a high school senior at Lake Oconee Academy, has been named a 2023 PAGE STAR Student Region Winner for PAGE STAR Region 4. The announcement was made on Jan. 19 by Patricia Randolph at the local event luncheon sponsored by Greene County Rotary Club. Heinen, selected Amy Reber, a music teacher at Lake Oconee Academy, as her STAR teacher.

Over the weekend, the Lake Oconee Academy girls’ basketball team dropped its first region game of the season to the Towns County Lady Indians. The Saturday afternoon contest was close through all four quarters, but the Lady Titans were eventually defeated 52-49 in Hiawassee.

The Greene County Board of Education unanimously voted on Jan. 19 to approve a settlement with Lake Oconee Academy that ends the charter school’s 29-month-old lawsuit against the BOE.