To the Editor

To the Editor:

Monday’s assembly meeting brought apprehensiveness to the discussion about data centers in Petersburg. I think that this is largely because the discussion comes on the shirttail of large corporations plopping steel towers in our backyard. People find themselves leery about an investor wanting to build something big at the old Kayler-Dahl facility; they shouldn’t be. Towers and data centers are two separate and unrelated issues.

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