County declines Fruitland bid to incorporate based on mapping error

Friday, May 25, 2012

Seventeen months after county residents began their efforts to form a village in Fruitland, the Cape Girardeau County Commission declined to approve the final step in the process Thursday, saying there was a flaw in the legal description of the village boundaries.

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