12/29/05
White County News-Telegraph
Stop I-3 partners with
green group: I-3 opponents can make tax-free donations
12/19/05
Athens Banner-Herald
I-3
opponents too late to fight for mountains
11/14/05
Newsweek
Once
Unique, Soon a Place Like Any Other
11/9/05
Smoky Mountain Sentinel
Commissioners:
“I’ve learned more, I’m not for (Interstate
3).”
11/04/05, Greenwire
Epic battle looms over
coast-to-mountains highway proposal
11/2/05
Creative Loafing
Road
Rage
10/27/05
The Gainesville Times
Critics:
New interstate a waste of funds
10/4/05
NPR's "Morning Edition"
Mountain
Interstate Plans Raise Alarm
10 or 11, 2005
The Cherokee Scout
Two editorials:
I-3 not right for our area
Don't get fooled by the rhetoric
9/14/05
Smoky Mountain News
I-3
planning process shrouded in ambiguity
9/12/05
AccessNorthGa.com
Stop
I-3 Coalition says Congress should use funds for Katrina relief
9/8/05
White County News-Telegraph
'Boondoggle'
9/7/05
St Petersburg Times
From
disaster to disgrace
9/6/05
WSB-TV, Channel 2
Partial transcript of interview
re Interstate 3
9/2/05
Savannah Morning News
Detour
highway bill
9/2/05
Towns County Sentinel
"STOP I-3" presented
to Rotarians
8/31/05
Georgia ForestWatch
Our back yards must get
bigger if the Stop I-3 fight is to succeed
8/29/05
The New York Times
Destroying
the National Parks
8/28/05
The Gainesville Times
I-3
should not be built just to carry nuclear materials
8/28/05
White County News-Telegraph
Interstate 3 opponents ask
why
8/26/05
White County News-Telegraph
Our
View
8/24/05
The Gainesville Times
Chambliss takes no stance
on mountain interstate
8/24/05
The Gainesville Times
I-3 opponents say politicians
invited to rally, but most didn't show
8/23/05
The Toccoa Record
Norwood
holds closed meeting
8/22/05
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Opposition
lines road to proposed interstates
8/12/05
The Northeast Georgian
Norwood says no I-3
route being considered
8/11/05
The Clayton Tribune
Norwood: Wait and see on I-3
8/10/05
Asheville Citizen-Times
Not
so fast on this whole I-3 thing
8/8/05
Asheville Citizen-Times
Interstate
3 study stirs WNC protest - Residents organize to fight road
plan
8/7/05
The Gainesville Times
Plans
for interstate again threaten our mountains' beauty
8/5/05
The Northeast Georgian
Highway bill to help fund Cornelia corridor
widening
8/5/05
The Knoxville News Sentinel
Williams:
Stand against destructive
I-3
8/4/05
White County News - Telegraph
White County Commission rejects
I-3 plan
7/31/05
Gwinnett Daily Post
New
interstate through the South has growing opposition
7/31/05
St. Petersburg Times
Interstate
is to mountains what drilling is to the gulf
7/30/05
WMAC-AM
Plan
For New SE Interstate Meetings With Opposition
7/29/05
Anderson Independent-Mail
I-3 study receives funding
boost
7/27/05
Chattooga Quarterly
Editorial
by Buzz Williams
7/27/05
Chattooga Quarterly
Interstate
3
7/24/05
Athens Banner-Herald
Reactions
mixed to proposed interstates
7/23/05
Anderson Independent-Mail
I-3 study on the way to President's
desk
7/14/05
The Clayton Tribune
Commissioners: No interstate
7/13 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Mountains
no place for interstate
7/13/05
The Northeast Georgian
I-3: Just say 'no'
7/9/05
Rabun commissioners declare unanimous opposition to Interstate.
7/6/05
Smoky Mountain News
6/28/05
The Northeast Georgian
Stop I-3 Coalition encourages writing letters
to congressmen
6/24/05
The Northeast Georgian
Commission says 'no' to I-3
6/17/05
The Knoxville News Sentinel
Are we ready for another interstate?
6/3/05
The Northeast Georgian
Interstate 3 route study could begin soon
2/28/05
Virginia's New Economy
The Shape
of the Future: Interstate Crime
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9/2/05, Towns County Sentinel
"STOP I-3" presented to Rotarians
by Rainer Arnold, Sentinel Writer
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Janet McCallen of the Towns County Homeowners
Association speaking to the Lake Chatuge-Hiawassee Rotary
Club
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The biggest controversy in this area in recent years is the
proposed I-3 which is presently being talked about and studied
by a variety of agencies, private and government. This Interstate
is proposed to run from Savannah via Augusta to Knoxville.
During this routing it is to possibly go through White and
Towns County.
However, at this time, nothing is certain, but Janet McCallen,
of the Towns County Homeowners Association does not want to
take any chances and thus she has agreed to speak to a variety
of groups about the proposed I-3 that could possibly destroy
the beauty of the mountains that are so enjoyable to everyone
in this area.
In her address to the Lake Chatuge-Hiawassee Rotary Club,
McCallen stated, "This proposal is part of the Transportation
Equity Act." This Act was originally proposed by Former
Representative Max Burns who has since been defeated. Now,
Congressman Charlie Norwood has given this measure his support.
According to McCallen there is a feasibility study being
conducted at this time. In a recent meeting, about 650 interested
persons heard that this proposed interstate would probably
not come within 5-10 miles of Highway 76. This close proximity,
according to McCallen could be devastating to this area.
Studies have shown that small towns close to interstates
have shriveled up and died. The only areas that survive are
small commercial pockets near the exits of the interstates.
McCallen also noted that the integrity of our watersheds,
diversity and health of our forests, scenic beauty of this
area, and the quality of life as we all know it, all that
would come to an end.
After all, according to McCallen, most of the people in this
area came to Towns County to get away from interstate traffic,
pollution and crime. And, this proposal of an interstate through
this area will bring all that residents wanted to leave behind,
back into their lives.
McCallen and the Towns County Homeowners Association is dedicated
to not allow this to happen.
For more information on this proposed I-3, please contact
McCallen through the TCHA at P.O. Box 455, Hiawassee, GA 30546
or check them out on www.stopi-3.org <http://www.stopi-3.org/>
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