County to extend time for purchase of G-P site
Columbus County commissioners were expected in a rare 7 a.m. session today to extend for another 90 days a June 30 deadline the county had given the owners of Project Black to purchase the former Georgia-Pacific industrial site between Whiteville and Chadbourn. The decision to meet today came after a 55-minute closed session Monday night for economic development matters and the board recessed its meeting Monday to reconvene this morning. They confirmed Monday night that they