Plant opponents still seek council action to stop rendering project
The preliminary injunction granted Monday is a win for opponents of the proposed rendering plant, but they still want Gadsden Council to pull the plug.
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The preliminary injunction granted Monday is a win for opponents of the proposed rendering plant, but they still want Gadsden Council to pull the plug.
A preliminary hearing in a case challenging a proposed rendering plant in Gadsden will continue on Thursday after a full day of testimony on Monday. Testimony will resume at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, although Etowah County Circuit Judge George Day said the hearing could be pushed up to 9 a.m. if a morning hearing gets canceled. A decision will be made on Tuesday. The suit brought by Dynamic Collision against the City of Gadsden and the Gadsden Airport Authority, and later joined by 11 community members, challenges a proposed Pilgrim’s Pride rendering plant on GAA property on Steele Station R...
A preliminary hearing was held before Judge George Day in the case of Dynamic Collision vs. the City of Gadsden and the Gadsden Airport Authority. It focused on 16 subpoenas filed by the plaintiff — who is challenging the proposed plant on GAA property on Steele Station Road, contending it would violate current zoning regulations — against various city, airport and industrial development officials, Pilgrim's Pride itself and representatives of an engineering firm. The subpoenas requested that the parties provide documents regarding communications between them and Pilgrim’s Pride to the ...
Attorney: Pilgrim's Pride soliciting bids for August construction start Lawyers for Dynamic Collision filed a motion Thursday seeking an expedited ruling and hearing on a preliminary injunction request as part of a zoning challenge at the proposed site for a Pilgrim's Pride rendering plant. Attorney Joshua Sullivan's motion asserts that a ruling is needed quickly because Pilgrim's Pride solicited bids for construction on the proposed plant, for a starting date in August. Circuit Judge George Day responded quickly, setting a hearing for 2:30 p.m. May 10. Day in his order setting the hearin...
Attorney Christie Knowles on Thursday in a social media post struck back at Gadsden Mayor Sherman Guyton's comments during Tuesday's City Council meeting. Knowles said Guyton "essentially accused" her or her law firm of using a computer to steal "confidential" documents linked to a proposed Pilgrim's Pride rendering plant in Gadsden. It's not true, she said in a Facebook post, and insisted the mayor knows that. Guyton used the mayor/council comments time at the meeting to question where Knowles' firm got what's been described as a Memorandum of Understanding from Guyton to Pilgrim's Pride. C...