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Residents, officials spar over Verizon tower near ancestral burial grounds as county faces litigation
Summary
A dispute over a cell-phone tower on Powerline Road that residents say sits next to ancestral Maidu burial grounds drew multiple public commenters and drew the county into litigation and closed-session discussion on Sept. 8.
A dispute over a cell-phone tower on Powerline Road that residents say sits next to ancestral Maidu burial grounds drew multiple public commenters and drew the county into litigation and closed-session discussion on Sept. 8.
Public commenter Suzanne Trammell Sterling said she spent an entire day at the site and warned of immediate human consequences. “There are very real humans on the ground who are very scared now that they are being sued because they are here at the tradesman level with an umbrella company called Vertical Bridge, with a company called Verizon, with a company called Sierra Pacific,” she told the board.
The board moved the…
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