Supervisors on Tuesday approved an agreement allowing Origis, which is building two solar farms in western Lowndes County, to improve roads surrounding the construction site at the company’s cost.
District 41 Rep. Kabir Karriem told the Lowndes County Board of Supervisors on Friday that the request to renew the 2-percent tourism tax may need some “massaging” because it was unusual to ask for funding for two separate recreation programs.
It was early in the morning on June 12, 1990, when then-Dispatch staff photographer Keith Gaskin got the call that an explosion had ripped apart the Mid South Pyrotechnics firework plant on Concord Road, leaving a smoking crater at the site.