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The Georgia Department of Transportation plans to close a portion of U.S. 17 in north Camden County for nearly three years to replace three bridges spanning tidal creeks and some

Camden County Commission member Jim Goodman is working with a group to call for a special grand jury to investigate Spaceport Camden.

In the year since Camden County residents overwhelmingly voted against local rocket launches, county officials have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to revive lofty plans to transform the

In the year since Camden County residents overwhelmingly voted against local rocket launches, county officials have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to revive lofty plans to transform the region into Georgias space coast.

The congressman previously claimed the property was for personal use and not an investment, but it’s listed for twice his 2018 purchase price of $2.05 million.

Camden County’s proposed spaceport project was grounded before it ever saw a commercial rocket lift off, with voters rejecting the idea in a March 2022 referendum. But while the project has consumed $12 million in tax dollars, the money keeps flowing, mainly for attorneys to represent the county in four spaceport-related lawsuits.

Camden County‌ ‌officials‌ ‌continue to hold out hope they will be able to purchase the Union Carbide Corp. property as they meet with potential investors for their long-stalled spaceport project.

The fate of rocket launching Spaceport Camden awaits the outcome of lawsuits and reaching an agreement to purchase the land for the facility.

The Georgia Supreme Court dealt another blow to Camden County’s spaceport plan when it denied the county's request to stop the certification of Tuesday’s referendum in which voters roundly rejected the spaceport.

Voters rejected the spaceport project by a margin of nearly 3-to-1.