Business as Usual 0
That is, underhanded and below-board.
Bill Dulin says the same buyer told him he planned to use land he bought from him for hunting or catfish farming.
So both were surprised when Martin Marietta Materials, the Raleigh-based mining company, last year confirmed it was looking to operate a granite quarry on their former property and nearby parcels in the Bowling Green community north of Clover.
Instead of keeping the land himself, the buyer, a Clover man named Kenneth Smith, had instead sold the land to Martin Marietta. Quarry opponents suspect the company worked with Smith to buy the land so sellers and neighbors would not be alerted to plans for the property.
(This caught my eye because my mother grew up in Clover.)
