North Valdosta Church of God came to a decision.
Plus
a house variance in
Lowndes County was approved unanimously,
and
a gas station variance got its building variance approved, but its other variance requests denided, all on a split vote.
in
Valdosta.
See
the Meeting Results Summary,
which also lists all of ZBOA members as present.
Here’s the agenda, with links to the videos and a few notes. The City of Valdosta puts ZBOA agendas and minutes online in real PDFs. Continue reading
A major big city daily?
A local newspaper of record along the proposed pipeline path?
Nope: the Valdosta State University student newspaper, The Spectator,
has done what its bigger newspaper colleagues have not dared:
oppose the Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline and demand renewable
energy instead.
Where students lead, maybe their elders will follow.
Editorial in The Spectator 1 May 2014 (I added the links and images), Pipeline a risk to Valdosta, Continue reading
9AM to 1PM
Valdosta Farm Days at the old Lowndes County Courthouse,
first and third Saturdays, starting today.
City of Valdosta Pr 24 April 2014, Downtown Valdosta Welcomes Back Farm Days,
On market Saturdays, vendors offer a variety of goods for sale such as locally-grown, locally-raised, locally-produced fruits and vegetables, plants, herbs, meats, farm-fresh eggs and dairy products, organic produce, baked and prepared foods, snacks and coffee. Patrons will also find a variety of artisan and natural products including products made from recycled goods, birdhouses, handmade soaps and body products, candles, and honey products. Those who arrive early to shop have the advantage of beating the heat and getting the best picks of the season.
The market also serves as a venue to educate the community on healthy local options. Cooking demonstrations and Continue reading
A tiny town of about 3,000 people grilled pipeline reps for two hours.
Why didn’t the pipeline companies fix the leaky pipelines they had
before building new ones, their Board of Selectment wanted to know
among many other good questions.
Representatives from Kinder Morgan and its subsidiary
Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company (TGP)
said stuff happens and those were bigger issues and basically
don’t worry your pretty little heads.
The locals weren’t buying it. Continue reading
The answer is:
Burnt Church Road is the location of the
2 MW Lakeland Solar Farm,
conveniently next to what appears to be a Georgia Power substation.
The landowner appears from the Lanier County tax assessor maps to be
Patten Seed Company.
Compare this map to the big image in the
previous post
and they clearly show the same location.
Apparently nobody has satellite images of Lanier County new enough
yet to show the solar panels. Continue reading
Received today via the Valdosta-Lowndes Chamber of Commerce.
I added a few links from
posts in this blog featuring Ashley Tye.
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Lowndes County Emergency Management Continuity of Business Workshop,You Are Invited to attend the
Lowndes County Emergency Management
Continuity of Business Workshop
On Monday, May 5, from 5:30-6:30 p.m., Lowndes County Emergency Management will host a Continuity of Business Workshop on the second floor of the Lowndes County Administrative Building, 327 North Ashley Street, Valdosta, Georgia. The session will be led by Lowndes County Emergency Management Director, Ashley Tye.
Attendees will receive Continue reading
Somebody told me a few weeks ago there’s a big solar farm near Lakeland. He was not very specific about where, but it’s big: two megawatts, organized by a company out of Chicago. Can anybody point me to where it is so I can go take pictures?
Evergreen Solar Services says,
2.0 MW Lakeland, GA
Completed in 2014, 2 — 1.0 MW Georgia Power ASI projects. Fixed tilt PV with central inverters, medium voltage interconnected.
You can see by this Evergreen Solar Services picture that Continue reading
“People would have a lot more confidence in the government
if they understood it and they could see it happen,”
said Gretchen Quarterman this morning on drive-time radio.
She used last night’s
Brookhaven apartment building rezoning public hearing in
Lake Park to illustrate: local landowners have property rights and
there was a lack of communication between the developers
of a proposed apartment building, the Lake Park city government,
and the neighbors.
She also talked about jobs, including in local agriculture.
For example, she ran the
2014 South Georgia Growing Local Conference.
Money spent on local agriculture supports the local economy,
not companies far away.
She talked about stewardship of resources,
including preserving local property and environment from
the Sabal Trail natural gas pipeline.
She advocated Continue reading
There is something we can do about that proposed fracked methane pipeline.
Lindsay Abrams wrote for Salon today, The real secret to beating the Koch brothers: How our broken political system can still be won: A duo of activists has quietly bested the energy lobby, helping ban fracking in 172 towns. Here’s how they did it,
You probably haven’t heard of Helen Slottje, or, for that matter, of her husband, David. But in the past few years, the former corporate lawyers have become arguably two of the most powerful opponents of fracking in New York — not to mention the most successful. As the (sort of) public face of the duo’s efforts, Helen Slottje on Monday was honored with the Goldman Prize, the world’s largest environmental prize.
OK, what did they actually do? Continue reading
A scheduled guest
didn’t show up
and an unscheduled guest
did,
about
broadband.
Perhaps 250 jobs from a prospective logistics distribution
Project Royal
and a potential agriculture-related
Project Orange.
Express Scripts
brought 135 jobs last year and now are adding 175 jobs.
Executive Director Andrea Schruijer
emphasized the importance of existing industries in generating
jobs and capital investment.
She’s also discovered
agriculture is 13% of Georgia GDP and 10% of that is grown in our region.
Next VLCIA meeting will be noon Thursday May 20th because of a trip to Atlanta later that same day. They may be in their “new digs” by then, and Building-Committee-UpdateChairman Mary Gooding promised an open house once they were moved in.
Here’s the agenda, with links to the videos, and a few notes.
Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial AuthorityContinue reading
Thursday, April 15, 2014 5:30 p.m.
Industrial Authority Conference Room
2110 N. Patterson Street