Cashiers residents form civic group
By Sarah Kucharski • Staff Writer
Members of the Cashiers area are organizing a new civic association to direct the community’s future.
The formation of the association is an outgrowth of a planning project a group of Louisiana State University students undertook last year. The students, led by LSU landscape architecture professor and part-time Cashiers resident V. Frank Chaffin, studied the area in terms of demographics, land use and projected growth. Their semester-long study resulted in the recommendation of aesthetic-yet-functional element such as the creation of a public park and preserving in-town wetlands.
Cashiers plant cuts 80 jobs; some go to Bryson, Canton
By Sarah Kucharski • Staff Writer
Approximately 80 workers will be laid off from Cashier’s Consolidated Metco plastics plant beginning in January in the largest downsizing in Jackson County since the Ashley Company furniture plant closed in 2002.
