say the project would rip away their "ancestral land." In an earlier hearing in April, a public hearing officer said using eminent domain to take the Sparta landowner's property served "a ...

The 15 residents have one option left to try to stop the forced land sales: the Georgia Supreme Court. The landowners in Sparta, roughly 100 miles east of downtown Atlanta, filed an appeal last ...

Approaching its 20th year of operation, Veritas Christian Academy in Sparta is raising funds for its own building in nearby ...