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The Linn County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday, Sept. 7, rejected four bids for the former Willamette Industries mill site in Sweet Home Tuesday morning and agreed to consider offering individual parcels of the 150-acre property for sale.

Commissioners Roger Nyquist and Will Tucker voted in favor of the proposal and Commissioner Sherrie Sprenger voted against it. 

The commissioners put the property out for Requests For Proposals in June and received four responses, but Nyquist and Tucker said they were not satisfied that the bidders had presented a clear vision about their development p...