Madisonville protests 'low income' apartments | News
New housing in Madisonville dominated the town’s August meeting as a group has come out against construction on Willow Creek Drive . Hall Investments is the company behind the construction and controversy over the building of “low income” apartments started when talk spread that Sweetwater, which has some of the apartments close to Interstate 75, was not happy with the end results. Maurice Moser, a former principal and teacher and the current transportation director for the Monroe County School System , was the spokesperson for those opposing the apartments, telling the Madisonville Mayor and Aldermen that he wanted the town to do whatever it could to stop the project.
“ Blount County turned him (Gary Hall) down,” Moser said. “ Monroe County Mayor Tim Yates wants nothing to do with it, and now Sweetwater is regretting letting him build over there.” Moser said apartments such as this can “wreck a school system ” when outside families with children come into the area...