A plan for the site. Photo courtesy: Beales and Thomas
The Planning Board postponed a vote on the Borrego solar field proposed for A.D. Makepeace land on Tihonet Road following conversations about the company’s right to remove sand and gravel from the site.
As discussed at the March 8 Planning Board meeting, the proposal calls for roughly two million cubic yards of sand and gravel to be removed from the land to prepare it for the installation of solar panels. While the applicant, represented by Stacy Minihane of Beales and Thomas, argued that removal was necessary, conservation advocates, including Meg Sheehan of the Community Land and Water Coalition, said that the solar field was a mere cover story for the strip mining of the land.
Wareham Officer Finds a Chicken Crossing the Road
Why did the chicken cross the road? We may never know, but it looks like the Wareham Department of Natural Resources was asking themselves that very question over the weekend when they discovered two whole packaged chickens near the Tihonet Road overpass.
Someone got home on Saturday and realized that their groceries took a tumble on the way back from Shaw s. A WDNR Officer came across an unusual sight on patrol of Tihonet Village when they spotted two perfectly packaged chickens on the side of the road. Maybe it was a slow day for the department or maybe their funny bone was working overtime, but the officer was so amused that they decided to park their truck, push the chickens to the side of the road, and snap a photo (because photos or it didn’t happen).