Sanderson Farms: ‘We don’t negotiate’–Source: The Wilson Times

Sanderson Farms has expectations and they don’t negotiate when company leaders narrow down possible locations for a new poultry processing plant. (Read more)

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Wilson removed as plaintiff in plant site rezoning lawsuits – Source: The Rocky Mount Telegram

An N.C. Superior Court judge ruled Friday that the city of Wilson be removed as a plaintiff from two ongoing lawsuits against Nash County.

Wilson has sued Nash County over rezoning close to 150 acres of land at the intersection of Interstate 95 and N.C. 97 that Sanderson Farms wants to use to build a new poultry processing plant. (Read more)

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Judge weighs Wilson’s lawsuit against plant site rezoning – Source: The Rocky Mount Telegram

An N.C. Superior Court judge said Thursday he would not hear a motion filed by attorneys representing Wilson until he decides whether the city has standing to sue Nash County. (Read more)

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Nash to cut 15 positions to prevent tax hike in 2011–Source: The Rocky Mount Telegram

NASHVILLE — A proposed spending plan for Nash County’s upcoming fiscal year doesn’t increase property taxes. As balancing measures, the plan eliminates vacant staff positions, implements a hiring freeze and cuts pay increases for county employees out of the budget. (Paid Content)

Chicken plant site rezoning on Monday’s agenda – Source: The Rocky Mount Telegram

A large crowd is expected at the Nash County Board of Commissioners’ meeting Monday as the board tries to put to bed a rezoning issue that has dragged on for more than five months. (Read more)

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Planning board explains new vote on proposed chicken plant site – Source: The Rocky Mount Telegram

A proposed poultry processing plant by Sanderson Farms might have been the driving force behind the Nash County Planning Board’s abrupt decision to deny an industrial rezoning recommendation for land that might house the facility. (Read more)

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Judge denies plant opponents’ request to join lawsuit – Source: The Rocky Mount Telegram

NASHVILLE — Opponents fighting the construction of a proposed Sanderson Farms poultry processing plant were denied a request Monday to be added to an ongoing lawsuit against Nash County by an N.C. Superior Court judge in Nash County. (Read more)

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Goal: Make Twin Counties more marketable – Source: The Daily Southerner

ROCKY MOUNT — The results are in and local officials are looking at the competitiveness of the Twin Counties and ways to make the area more marketable for businesses, industries and citizens. (Read more)

Note: I hate I was not able to attend the meeting but had to video a middle school ballgame. I would love to have videoed this meeting because I don’t think I can get the real feeling of how this meeting went. However both newspapers did a good job but I believe this is one of those meetings you had to be there to really get it. C. Dancy II – DCN Publisher

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Officials: Proposed Sanderson Farms site improperly zoned–Source: The Rocky Mount Telegram

A high-ranking Sanderson Farms executive has acknowledged that the rezoning of several hundred acres of land for a proposed poultry plant was incorrectly done.

Nash County officials say they are deciding on how to fix several errors in the a Nov. 1 rezoning of 150 acres at the southeast quadrant of N.C. 97 and Interstate 95. Most of the land in that area was zoned for residential use, and the Nash County Board of Commissioners rezoned the acreage to general industrial zoning — that allows more than 195 uses, possibly including the company’s poultry plant. (Read more)

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