Column: Farm-to-freeway dinner on Willits Bypass features locally grown controversy

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The Willits Chamber of Commerce is putting together a “Supper on the Bypass” dinner scheduled for October 29th. Geared towards celebrating Willits as a destination, organizers say they aim to pair local farms with local chefs to show off just what the community of Willits has to offer. Now most of us know that the bypass has been a controversial decades, with many saying it has come to fruition in one of the worst possible ways — in regards to the environment, cultural considerations, city engineering, preservation of agricultural lands, cost, etc.