Buckfield voting on several issues Wednesday
Credit: Mary Standard, Special to the Sun Journal, www7.sunjournal.com 5 January 2010
BUCKFIELD — The town will vote on a six-month moratorium on wind power development and three other issues at a special town meeting Wednesday.
The meeting begins at 7 p.m. Jan. 6 in the Buckfield Junior-Senior High School auditorium.
Town Manager Glen Holmes said if the moratorium passes, the Planning Board will have six months to finish writing an ordinance to govern wind power projects.
Another article calls for a vote on a wind power ordinance modeled after one by the state.
Voters will also decide whether to sell Bessey Memorial Field on Paris Hill Road and use the proceeds to pay for lights for the softball/baseball field at the Municipal Center.
Longtime beekeeper Tony Bachelder offered the town $50,000 for the Bessey field, which is across the road from his property. Owner of one of the largest beekeeping operations in Maine, with up to 800 hives at times, he said the lights at the field disturb his hives at night games.
The last article in the warrant asks for a vote to appropriate $52,000 from the Fund Balance to complete the sand/salt storage building.
The first of the five articles calls for election of a moderator.
Tags: Wind power, Wind energy
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