McClatchy Newspapers
WILSON, N.C. — The battle between the city of Wilson and Nash County over a proposed chicken plant has cost more than $1.2 million in legal fees and costs associated with environmental issues during the past year.
The fight is not over, as a Sanderson Farms plant remains possible; company officials have delayed the project because of high grain prices and lower product demand. County commissioners rezoned 150 acres off N.C. 97, near the Wilson County line, in hopes Sanderson Farms would build a $95 million poultry processing plant that would create 1,100 jobs. The. . .
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