The Planning and Zoning Commission on Wednesday approved a special-use permit for the establishment of a private library dedicated to the study of African-American history in a residential neighborhood in Sedalia.
Sedalia psychologist Marge Harlan and her husband, Jerry, applied for the permit to establish the library on Lima Alley, in the home of Democrat columnist, author and historian Rose Nolen.
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