Watauga County commissioners approved a $12,000 economic development incentive for a new sweet potato milk startup.
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Twelve grand from the county to get a sweet potato milk business off the ground. That is what commissioners voted to hand over, betting on a crop that grows here and a product nobody around here is making yet. Whether it works or tanks, the money is already gone, so the question is whether the bet pays back in jobs or just becomes the kind of story we tell about the time the county tried something weird.
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