The mass vaccination site at the Oconee County Civic Center last Saturday drew 743 people to receive their first COVID-19 shot.
“We were really pleased to get that many shots in arms,” Acting Watkinsville Mayor Brian Brodrick said Tuesday.
Those vaccinated were asked to return to the civic center in three weeks for their second dose of the Pfizer vaccine.
The effort was a joint venture by the city of Watkinsville, Oconee County, Athens Masonic District 6 and the University Cancer and Blood Center. Ninety volunteers worked the site, which Brodrick described as well organized. He said volunteers came from private businesses, local government, churches and other groups.
Oconee County setting up COVID mass vaccinations site at Civic Center
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The Western Judicial Circuit, which includes courts in Athens-Clarke and Oconee counties, expects in-person jury trials to resume in March, with juror summons expected to be sent out by the end of February, according to a press release from the circuit.
Georgiaâs jury trials have been suspended since March 2020, when the chief justice of the Georgia Supreme Court declared a statewide judicial emergency due to the pandemic. The Western Judicial Circuit expects the next extension of this emergency, set for March 9, to authorize jury trials to resume as local conditions allow, according to the release.
The circuitâs local committee has identified the Classic Center as a safe alternative location for ACC jury selection and trials to resume. For Oconee County, the committee identified the Oconee County Civic Center as a location for jury assembly, but trials will still occur at the Oconee County Courthouse with social distancing enforced, according to the release.