This story was originally published at Georgia Health News.
When Georgia Power opened Plant Scherer in 1982, few local residents benefited more than the Bowdoin family.
Marvin Bowdoin, who had sold his neighbors on the utility’s promises of more jobs and greater tax revenues for the community, owned a store in the small town of Juliette that sold groceries and gas to the company’s employees.
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