Four Berkshire families test solar heating with mixed results
In Pittsfield and surrounding towns Massachusetts Electric’s two year solar heating trial yields small cost savings and several unit failures. Despite 8 weeks shutdowns and glare issues neighbors and builders face zoning hurdles while participants report side benefits and plan future use.
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Pittsfield
Mass
Massachusetts Electric Co
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
New England Electric System
Warren E. Archey
Lenox
Leslie Goldinger
Sheffield
Samuel F. Vince
Williamstown
Edwin R. Wilk
North Adams
Vince
Archey
Goldinger
Home Gas Corp
Great Barrington
Wilk
Edwin Jr
Massachusetts Electric Consumer Service
Archeys
Vinces
State Office of Consumer Affairs
Vermont Environmental Board rejects Rattail scheme
The Vermont Environmental Board ruled that Dr. Bernard Barney must obtain an Act 250 land development permit for his Jay subdivision plan that used a slim road frontage to avoid permits. The decision marks the first official rejection of the so called rattail method to dodge the environmental law.
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South Burlington
UPI
State Environmental Board
Vermont
Bernard Barney
Jay
Barney
McNaughton home attack probe suspended with no suspects
Police say the investigation into the nighttime attack on Vermont State's Attorney Gregory McNaughton's home has been suspended until new information emerges. A knife was thrown through a bedroom window injuring his wife, and a porch fire followed a threatening call pattern.
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McNaughton
Teen rapist Gordon Tennyson gets maximum Albany sentence
Albany County Judge Joseph Harris imposes eight and a third to 25 years on 17 year old Gordon L. Tennyson for a June 12 rape and assault on a neighbor. The sentence cites a heinous case with no mitigating factors despite Tennyson’s prior trouble beginning at age 13. The trial included a 26 year old neighbor testifying of luring, stabbing, rape, sodomy, and force to mop blood from the floor.
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Albany
Joseph Harris
Gordon L. Tennyson
Harris
Tennyson
Northern Boulevard
Diane Dubiac
Donald Bouton
Bouton
Fire alarm tester arrested in Berkshire incident
A New Jersey man claiming to be a government agent said he was testing local fire departments when he admitted pulling two fire alarm boxes in Berkshire on Monday night. David A. Taranto, 31, of Somerdale, NJ, faces two counts of false alarms in district court after telling responders he timed the fire department response at 10:17 p.m. in the East Quincy Street and Kempt Avenue area.
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North Adams
New Jersey
David A. Taranto
Somerdale
N.J
East Quincy Street
Kempt Avenue
Taranto
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Milton
Francis J. Meany
Meany
Charlemont
Carl Swenson
Manchester
Manchester School Board
Edward Houlihan
Armstrong
Elm St
Armstrong Dee
General Mills
Trix
Pillsbury Flours
Muellers
Boyardee
Getti
Diamonds
Main ST
Bennington, VT
Rutledge
Formfit Rogers
Nichols
Main Street
Bennington, Vermont
CVPS
Ratland
UPS
Central Vermont Public Service Corp
Russell Ayer
Consolidated Edison
New York
Ayer
Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development
Montpelier
William Pinney
Pinney
Brattleboro
Vermont Yankee
Vermont Yankee Decommissioning Alliance
Vernon
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Hinsdale
Housatonic River
Peru
Division of Fisheries and Wildlife
Winston S. Saville
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