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GP closure to cost city $500,000 in revenues
The City of Perry has called a special meeting for Friday to discuss the closure of the Georgia-Pacific (GP) Foley mill and its impact on the city’s fiscal year 2023-…
Schools face $13-16 million in storm clean-up and repair
Getting schools up and running one week after Hurricane Idalia stormed through Taylor County came with a steep cost – with the district looking at paying out in excess of…
Dunn demands GP donate mill to county
Congressman Neal Dunn, who represents Taylor County and District 2 in the U.S. House of Representatives, has sent Georgia-Pacific officials a list of demands in the wake of the company’s…
Chamber Chair Parker givesaction update on GP closure
By SANDRA PARKER / Chairman, Perry-Taylor County Chamber of Commerce First, let me say that my heart is saddened by the devastation we are still healing from due to Hurricane…
Ag. Comm. Simpson: ‘GP is a willing seller’
Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Wilton Simpson says Georgia- Pacific (GP) officials are “willing sellers” and there are “many economic incentives available” should another investor or company want to take over…
Council expected to adjust utility rates at Sept. 26 hearing
The city council is expected to approve an ordinance adjusting several of its monthly utility rates at a final budget hearing on Tuesday, Sept. 26.…
GP MILL CLOSING
Less than three weeks after taking a direct hit from a category 3 hurricane, Taylor County was struck with a much more devastating blow on Monday, Sept. 18, when Georgia-Pacific…
Economic, tax impacts
Georgia-Pacific (GP) and the Foley Cellulose Mill accounts for nearly $557 million in taxable value, which makes up approximately 28% of Taylor County’s total 2023 tax rolls.…
Closure will have‘a domino effect’
Long-time local logger Benjye Tuten of H.B. Tuten Logging says the mill’s closure will have a domino effect that will severely impact his logging business and the 65 employees who…
‘Sad day in Taylor County’s history’
“This is a very sad day in Taylor County’s history,” said Vance Howell, a former county commissioner and now-retired 40-year employee with the local cellulose mill.…
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