Oconee’s Mendel Stone is re-nominated

Oconee County resident Mendel Stone has been re-nominated for a new three-year term on the board of Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative. During an Oconee County district meeting, Stone was nominated to be on the ballot for a vote of the Blue Ridge membership during the annual meeting April 26 in Pickens. No one else was placed in nomination. That’s not the case for a seat representing Pickens County. Incumbent Franklin Looper Jr. will face Jason Dennis. A second incumbent from Pickens County, Jimmy Lee Dodgens, was re-nominated without opposition.