“It has been reported to Animal Control, but we have not heard back from them,” she said in an e-mail to the school principal, Jackie Carson. There also were reports of small animals missing in the area, including a calf, Epps said. Someone cutting brush first spotted the purported cougar - also known as a mountain lion - on Thursday afternoon, and a bus driver for the Oconee County School System reported seeing it again this morning, said Deborah Epps, administrative assistant to the school superintendent. Administrators at Colham Ferry Elementary School delayed student recess this morning based on two sightings of a black panther prowling the area between the school and adjacent Bell’s Lake.
