Municipal utilities to participate in solar project
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Mansfield Municipal Electric Department recently announced that the publicly-owned utility is participating in a new solar project to be built in Ludlow.
MMED will purchase approximately 0.5 megawatt from the 7 megawatt project being constructed on the property of MMED’s joint action agency, the Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Company. MMED is one of six municipal utility members of MMWEC participating in the project. The others are located in Boylston, Ipswich, Marblehead, Peabody and Wakefield.
The ground-mounted solar project will be built on a 30-acre section of MMWEC’s 200-acre property in Ludlow. The site is well suited for solar. After receiving responses to its request for proposals, MMWEC is working with EDF Renewables Distributed Solutions Inc., as the project developer. In addition, MMWEC intends to maximize the use of local subcontractors in the project. Construction will start this s
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MMAS, Rose Garden Coffeehouse to host livestream concert
Mass Music and Arts Society, in collaboration with Rose Garden Coffeehouse, will host a live-streamed show featuring Crowes Pasture and Doug Farrell at 7 p.m. Feb. 20.
Crowes Pasture, the guitar-banjo duo of Andy Rogovin and Monique Byrne, will split the bill with singer-songwriter Doug Farrell, the winner of the Rose Garden Coffeehouse’s Performing Songwriter Competition in 2020.
The show will be live, but no audience will be present. The only people involved will be a socially distanced and masked production crew. A barrier will separate performers. The performance will be streamed live on ShowTix4U.
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Sen. Paul R. Feeney to meet with constituents over Zoom
Sen. Paul R. Feeney, D-Bristol and Norfolk, and his staff will be available to meet with constituents over Zoom during November s district office hours from 5 to 7 p.m. Dec. 15 and 9 to 11 a.m. Dec. 18.
To protect health and safety throughout the ongoing pandemic, all constituent meetings are taking place by video or over the phone. Privacy is maintained and meetings are one-on-one with the senator.
To schedule a meeting, visit https://senatorfeeney.com/office hours. A staff member will follow up to confirm and meetings will be scheduled on a first-come, first-served basis.