Part 4: Let's Get Local: More From Columbia County and the Fox Hill Vineyard Saga.

Spoiler Alert: It's not over. Not any of it. What's new? Well, I guess it the "FU".

Next week—assuming we make it, which feels less like assumption and more like prayer these days—the good people of Columbia County will gather for a public forum on the Fox Hill Farm and Vineyard saga.

For those late to the drama: Ed Williams and his wife Cheri want to open a tasting room for their vineyard—which isn't yet ready for wine time. But the tasting room? Urgent, apparently. This is, of course, lipstick on the same pig they trotted out pre-COVID—a wedding venue thinly disguised as agriculture, redux of their first attempt to monetize their large home on Bashford Road. The neighbors went to the mattresses over that iteration. But Ed and Cheri—you have to admire the persistence, if nothing else—kept pivoting to new concepts, all of which the neighborhood has rejected with the same answer: This does not belong here.

In December, the Zoning Board of Appeals met. The Williamses’ lawyer continued his valiant effort to shoehorn his clients’ wishes into something resembling acceptable…