Sandhills Community College to offer pre-employment training with PTT at Hoke Center
November 5, 2026
The City of Sanford spent four weeks working on this document to answer frequently asked questions about data centers. There are no other policies in the state on data centers. It is important to understand that in Lee County, a data center may be built “by right” as a light[Read More…]
The City of Sanford annexed 50.701 acres of rural “Countryside” on Deep River Road at the March 17 meeting. Landowners Roy Mashburn with Highway 54 Partners, LLC in Cary, Kirk Bradley with CCEP DR, LLC in Sanford, and David and Kandace Poindexter on Deep River Road, requested the annexation for[Read More…]
Nearly 200 Pack the Room — and Push Back on Chair Kirk Smith’s Attempts to Undermine Science The room at the Ruby McSwain Center in Sanford reached capacity Monday night for the Lee County Board of Commissioners meeting, in a massive show of support for a moratorium, or temporary ban,[Read More…]
On Monday, March 16, the Lee County Board of Commissioners will hear a presentation on the county’s options for regulating data centers and crypto-mining. The presentation comes after months of local residents raising their voices in opposition to a controversial proposal from Deep River Data. Deep River Data wants to power[Read More…]