County to Build $2.5M Rec Center
WINNSBORO – The majority 4 voted to pass a resolution last week to option two parcels of land off Highway 21 in Ridgeway for the construction of a $2.5 million recreation center. While the county will build the recreation center with funds provided through a lawsuit settlement with Dominion last month, the two parcels – about 1.5 acres each – will cost the county $300,000.
Voting against the option were Councilman Douglas Pauley, Clarence Gilbert and Neil Robinson.
Council chairman Moses Bell has pushed for the recreation center since being elected to council three years ago. His first choice location was the county land next to the Ridgeway recycle center on Highway 21, but was nixed by county officials as not being an acceptable location.
Bell is authorized to execute the agreement.