Stay updated with breaking news from Sam Booher. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Vic Davis, who is seeking a rezoning to allow his project, Monday morning requested the rezoning consideration be delayed from its original plan for a June 13 vote by the 24-member Sullivan County Commission.
The Horse Creek Quarry, proposed by Vic Davis, would be on 90 acres near the Eastman recreational soccer fields on Sullivan Gardens Parkway.
The Georgia Sierra Club is putting pressure on the Chemours Co. to publicly disavow any future involvement with a proposal to mine titanium next to the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in South Georgia. A different company, the Alabama-based Twin Pines Minerals LLC, has proposed the mining operation and is awaiting a permitting decision from the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. But the Georgia Sierra Club fears that the larger and better established Chemours Co. could buy the Twin Pines project or the titanium it produces. "The ultimate aim is to save the Okefenokee National W...