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Close to 100 gathered outside the Allegany County Courthouse Thursday to protest the use of eminent domain in locating a Great Lakes Cheese factory
The Evening Tribune
BELMONT Roy Bielewicz was channeling Joni Mitchell in front of the Allegany County Courthouse Thursday morning, as close to 100 gathered to protest the use of eminent domain to facilitate the construction of a new $505 million cheese manufacturing facility.
“Our legislators are paving paradise to put up a cheese factory,” said Bielewicz, paraphrasing the lyrics to “Big Yellow Taxi,” Mitchell s 1970 ode to the environment.
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