T IMES
SOUTHERN
ULSTER
Vol. 14, No 40 3 OCTOBER 4 - 10, 2017
Several months ago, after a six month
moratorium, the Lloyd Town Board
passed a local law to govern solar farms
in the town. The law allows these farms in
commercial and residential areas in town
provided developers have a minimum
of 10 acres along with ensuring there is
proper buffering, screening and drainage
on the site.
After the law passed Cypress Creek
Renewables, represented by Anne Waling,
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SERVING HIGHLAND, MARLBOROUGH AND PLATTEKILL
Lloyd Planning Board weighs solar farm
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
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presented a proposal for a 2 mega-watt
solar farm, known as Wingate Solar, on
20 acres off of Perkinsville Road that
the developer is leasing from a local
property owner. The developer is seeking
to construct an array of solar panels that
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Fall cleanup
Highland
updates
construction
work
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
Lou Rodriguez, of the Palombo Group,
gave the Highland School board an update
on the construction work in the district.
Rodriguez gave updates on Phase Ia,
the first scope of work that went out
for bid, Phase Ib and the project as a
whole, the “big picture” and some of the
alternates that were selected and a few
others that were not chosen.
Under Phase Ia by Key Contracting,
the bus garage is completed, the High
School and elementary schools are
completed but the windows and doors
at the Middle School that were to be
finished by the end of the summer is now
projected to be finished by October 1.
Phase Ia site work- Meyer Contracting
competed the bus garage at the high
school and the scoreboard at the football
field is finished. Some minor sidewalk
caulking was also finished. Rodriguez
said the work on the athletic field is
“looking good and we’re going to be
closing this contractor out pretty soon.”
The electrical contract (light poles)
at all three schools, also by Meyer
Contracting, will be closed out soon.
Photo provided
Students from Highland High School’s National Honor Society spent Saturday morning beautifying their community. They are participating in
the NYS Adopt a Highway program. Twenty-eight Honor Society students showed up despite on and off rain to cleaning trash on both sides
of 9W from 299 to Grand street. Another cleanup is planned for the spring. Additional photos on page 21.
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Phase 1b.1 at the Elementary school:
Key Construction Services is to date
at $1,161,371 and work will be completed
by October 1 with the exception of the
kitchen equipment cafeteria, the main
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