CELEBRATE PREVENTION WEEK–At their May 9 meeting, the Randolph County Board of Commissioners signed a proclamation declaring May 11-17 as National Prevention Week as well as May 9 as Jennifer Barbour Day. Both measures were to show support of the work being done by the Healthy Communities Alliance. Pictured at the meeting are: in front: Red Bud High School Assistant Principal Erin Legendre, RBHS Operation Snowball team members Katelynn Braun, Mallory Arbeiter and Devyn Liefer, and Randolph County Health Department Administrator Krista Mulholland; in back: former commissioner Marc Kiehna, Commissioner Andy Gerlach, RBHS Operation Snowball team members Addi Tallman, Norah Wagner and Luke McClellan, Healthy Communities Alliance members Jennifer Barbour, Rhonda Wilson and Amy Craig, and Commissioners David Holder and Ronnie White.
It was a packed room again for the Randolph County Board of Commissioners meeting on May 9, as many returned to see how the commissioners would act on the proposed solar farm project near Sparta. In addition, the commissioners approved a proclamations for National Prevention Week and Jennifer Barbour Day.
The proposed solar project, named Gypsum Solar, is a 135 acre 25MW AC solar farm, that would be in two sections located in unincorporated Randolph County, approximately a mile south of Sparta, along Chester Road and Nature Trail Road.
At the commissioner’s previous meeting, held May 1, they had on the agenda the special use permit for the project. Ten residents spoke out against the solar project, while two spoke in favor. Among the concerns was traffic and safety for that particular stretch of road, and how it would be further affected by construction of the solar project.
For more from the meeting, please see this week’s print edition.