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Commissioners deny alcohol license for 41 Food Mart over church proximity
Tift County Board of Commissioners · March 1, 2026
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Summary
The board denied an alcohol license application for 41 Food Mart at 2735 US Highway 41 South after objections about its proximity to a church; the motion to deny carried with one abstention recorded for Commissioner Fred "Buck" Rigdon.
The Tift County Board of Commissioners voted on Oct. 9 to deny an alcohol license application by Manguben Patel for 41 Food Mart, 2735 US Highway 41 South.
Attorney Chad VanOrman, representing the applicant, argued the distance restriction from a church should not apply because, he said, the adjacent structure "is not regularly functioning as a…
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