Published by admin on Thu, 07/08/2021 - 7:50am
Stronger together.
A partnership between Jones County Economic Development and the county’s agricultural interests could benefit both, JCED Executive Director Derek Lumsden told the county Board of Supervisors at its June 29 meeting.
“That’s one of the links that, for some reason, Jones County hasn’t had for quite a while, that I can find,” Lumsden told the board. “And coming from where I did, in the southwestern part of the state, they’re very closely linked. If you don’t have ag, economic development doesn’t prosper, and vice versa.”