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The approval to open a Dollar General store in Alta Sierra gained in 2018 from the Nevada County Board of Supervisors expired last month, and the company does not plan on opening a new store there.
According to Nevada County Planning Director Brian Foss, the March 2018 approval to open a new Dollar General store at 10166 Alta Sierra Drive came with a three-year time limit.
The approval was secured with a 3-to-2 vote.
Asked whether Dollar General would be going forward with opening an Alta Sierra location, a spokesperson for the company wrote in an email Wednesday that they currently do not have any plans to add new stores in Nevada County.
By Lorraine Jewett | Special to The Union
Ever-public Gil Mathew, rehired last month by the Economic Resource Council as executive director version 2.0, was asked by ERC job interview panelists to share something private that most people don’t know. Replied Gil, “I speak Farsi and I worked at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in the 1960s.” Jaws dropped. Gil’s mission was apparently classified because when pressed, he’ll admit only to working as a “clerk/typist.” His Farsi has waned as the foreign language refrain of “use it or lose it” warns, but his memories are vivid. “There’s nothing like spending the Fourth of July at an American embassy anyplace in the world. Ex-pat Americans from afar gather. We hosted thousands inside the walls of the Tehran Embassy…”
Staff Writer
The two sides in the debate over Measure S, the proposed revision to Nevada County’s medical marijuana ordinance on the Nov. 4 ballot, are up in arms about more than just the smell of marijuana and whether additional grow sites would result from the new proposal.
In recent days, “Yes on S” supporters say Nevada County officials are violating election law by using county letterhead on the official ballot statement opposing the measure, and by allowing Tuesday night’s gathering in favor of rejecting Measure S and keeping the existing county medical marijuana ordinance intact, to take place at the county’s Rood administration building in Nevada City.