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Bradleyville Votes "To Be Or Not To Be"

By KSPR News
By Joanna Small

It seems plenty of people want to live in Bradleyville, just not the Village of Bradleyville.

The Taney County community northeast of Forsyth incorporated with a goal in mind, and now it's clear that goal won't be achieved.

So voters are deciding Tuesday whether or not to stay incorporated.

Clarence Rogers’ 1966 mustang has more than just a couple hundred horse power under her hood.

There’s two years worth of sewage stored six feet below the classic, stored safely in a septic tank.

In 2002 Clarence joined the first Bradleyville board; he was one of the residents instrumental in making this tiny portion of unincorporated Taney County a village.

Seven years later it’s likely the community will return to its roots- over pipes.

“I’ve got my own system, I'm fine. But there's several who don't, who need the help and who could have got it,” explains Clarence.

The whole intent behind incorporating was to get a community-wide sewer system, something Clarence says Bradleyville desperately needed to protect nearby Beaver Creek.

“We was worried about Beaver Creek as far as the water."

But not everybody was as concerned as Clarence.

However, practically everybody in Bradleyville has an opinion about the sewer system.

Many people we talked to said there were far too many questions about costs and upkeep, but those people also told us this topic is just too controversial to talk about on camera; so controversial Clarence resigned from the board over it, and so clearly not going to happen the current board decided to put a dissolution measure on the ballot.

“We tried to do one thing and help- it didn't work,” Clarence tells us.

So now he can only hope his neighbors in what'll likely be the former village of Bradleyville are as meticulous about managing what's under their hoods as he is.

The chairman of Bradleyville's five-person board told us the board is unanimously in favor of disincorporation.

He says there were never enough people willing to fill board positions and that being a part of the county is a better fit for the community.

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