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6 days ago | 
mainstreetnews.com | Angela Gary
East Jackson High School students came home from spring break as world champions after placing first in their division in a choral competition in Spain. “I’m so proud of all of them,” choral director Dr. Todd Chandler stated.
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1 week ago | 
mainstreetnews.com | Angela Gary
Split votes on two issues led to the mayor breaking the tie at last week’s meeting of the Maysville City Council. The council was split on whether to approve an amendment to the land use management code. The vote was 2-2 with councilmembers Richard Parr and Kim Wilmoth in favor of the motion and Amanda Farley and Brodriche Jackson against it. Mayor Richard Presley broke the time by voting to approve the land use management code amendment.
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1 week ago | 
mainstreetnews.com | Angela Gary
The Banks County Board of Commissioners officially took away its support last week of locating a convention center at Banks Crossing. The BOC unanimously approved the resolution read by chairman Taylor Griffith at the April meeting. The resolution rescinds the earlier support from the BOC of a convention center.
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2 weeks ago | 
mainstreetnews.com | Angela Gary
The Banks County Board of Commissioners agreed in a called meeting last week to extend the moratorium on rezoning for residential and industrial developments until Sept. 24. Earlier this year, the BOC put the moratorium in place to stop new development while officials look into the need for more water. At last week’s meeting, the BOC approved a resolution calling for the moratorium.
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3 weeks ago | 
mainstreetnews.com | Angela Gary
Maysville is a town at odds — citizens vs. citizens and council members vs. council members. This has been apparent at most every city council meeting in the past year and it was again the case at Thursday night’s meeting. Voices were raised with clashes on everything from parks to a nuisance ordinance to the Downtown Development Authority. Twenty people attended the meeting with a couple speaking on the issues on the agenda.
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3 weeks ago | 
mainstreetnews.com | Angela Gary
Zoning requests and code amendment updates took up the majority of the three-hour March meeting of the Banks County Board of Commissioners. The longest discussion came over a request to locate storage warehouses for trusses on Otis Brown Road that was denied in a 3-2 vote. Andy Pfirman of Lamp Metal Trusses, Inc asked to rezone a 2.9-acre parcel on Otis Brown Road from ARR- agricultural rural residential to C2- commercial to be used for a storage warehouse for pre-fabricated metal trusses.
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4 weeks ago | 
mainstreetnews.com | Angela Gary
Commerce mayor Clark Hill ended his “State of the City” address by announcing that Piedmont Medical Center has a “significant development” planned in the city. Mayor Hill said details on the project have not been announced but it will bring new doctors, services and specialty care to the city. “It will fill a huge void since our hospital closed,” he said.
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4 weeks ago | 
mainstreetnews.com | Angela Gary
The Banks County Board of Commissioners met recently with the engineers for the new wastewater treatment plant with questions ranging from the cost increase to the time line. Information on the new wastewater treatment plant was given by Matt Smith, engineering consultant, as well as other members of the team. Smith outlined the project from the beginning in 2007 when the county purchased property for sewer improvements.
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1 month ago | 
mainstreetnews.com | Angela Gary
The first reading by the Maysville City Council on a proposed land use management code brought frustration from some council members that an earlier proposed nuisance ordinance was not approved. At the March meeting, council member Amanda Farley first questioned whether the land use code is the same thing as a nuisance ordinance. She said “it gets to the same end-point.”Councilman Brodriche Jackson stated, “This is stupidity. We literally tried to vote on this and no one wanted it.
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1 month ago | 
mainstreetnews.com | Angela Gary
A motion made by Maysville City Council member Amanda Farley to “opt out” of House Bill 581, the new homestead exemption legislation died for a lack of a second. No other motion was made and city attorney reported that no further action is needed if the city plans to “opt in” to the legislation. During the discussion before the vote, Farley asked Kidd if the city would have to raise property taxes if enough revenue does not come in.
