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RH voters to decide Sunday package sales
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If Richmond Hill voters approve, stores there will be able to start selling alcoholic drinks just like their rural counterparts, sometime next year. - photo by Stock photo
Richmond Hill City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to let voters decide whether they want Sunday package sales of alcohol in the city limits.Such sales became legal in January in unincorporated Bryan County after a 2014 referendum was approved by voters, and the sale of liquor by the drink on Sunday also is legal in both the county and in Richmond Hill.Tuesday’s vote approved a resolution calling for a Nov. 3 referendum. “We approved the process to be started last meeting,” City Manager Chris Lovell reminded council members. “This is the actual resolution to petition the elections board to put it on the ballot.”New lift station funding approvedCouncil also voted Tuesday to approve a bid of $1.74 million by Jordan Construction of Hilton Head, South Carolina, to build an offsite sewage force main and pump station for Richmond Hill Plantation.
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