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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News from Stop I-3 Coalition Rabun Chapter
For immediate release, July 9, 2005
Rabun commissioners declare unanimous opposition to Interstate
The five-member Rabun Board of Commissioners Thursday declared
its unanimous opposition to any proposed Interstate highway
coming through the county.
"We are unanimously with you," commission chairman
Eston E. Melton Jr. told a standing-room-only crowd at the
courthouse that evening. "We are to a person opposed
to this Interstate."
The Stop I-3 Rabun chapter had urged county residents to
let the commissioners know of the broad and growing opposition
to Interstate 3, as proponents are calling it, at a regularly
scheduled "Town Hall Meeting" sponsored by the board
that Thursday, July 7. The new Interstate would run from Savannah
to Knoxville, inevitably carving through the mountains of
Southern Appalachia.
More than 170 county residents, including a representative
swath of both working people and retirees, newcomers and native
mountaineers, stood up to be counted in opposition to the
ruinous road proposal. They then gave the board a tumultuous
standing ovation after chairman Melton unexpectedly announced
the board's position.
While mindful of the uphill battle the Interstate presents,
Melton said "we are going to be diligent and resourceful
in resisting and trying to stop this project." He also
announced that he will personally lobby the Georgia congressmen
sponsoring the Interstate, seek to enlist the support of neighboring
county commissioners in his effort and consider a formal resolution
of opposition by the board, among other possible moves.
A majority of north Georgia residents, as well as residents
of neighboring states, view any such Interstate as detrimental
to a way of life, damaging to the regional natural resources
and likely to transplant Atlanta's Interstate sprawl and gridlock
to the mountains if it is built.
About eight speakers addressed the Rabun board, all of them
opposed to the proposal. Lucy Ezzard Bartlett, a spokeswoman
for the STOP I-3 Rabun Chapter, noted that many Rabun residents
"are horrified" that a study for such an Interstate
"is even being considered."
She cited cost, environmental and safety concerns, in particular.
"With heavy truck traffic in the heavy fog that exists
almost nightly, the crash of truck carrying hazardous materials
would be a regular occurrence. Of particular concern would
be trucks with nuclear waste traveling at night on this highway."
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