BRASSTOWN, N.C. — A North Carolina judge ruled a Brasstown store’s 22nd annual New Year’s Possum Drop can go forward with lowering a live animal.

Superior Court Judge James Roberson rejected a request from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals to obtain a preliminary injunction to stop Clay’s Corner from lowering a live opossum for its 22nd annual Clay’s Corner Possum Drop Dec. 31.

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