LETTER from BILL MARTIN Solar Farm May Rescue Overworked, Overtaxed To the Editor: As our old friend, Paul Harvey used to say, ”Now for the rest of the story”. This is not the first “boom or bust” deal to pass through our community. A couple of us old timers remember a land buyout in the ’60s. Nothing came of it, but it was fun to watch. In the 70’s, a gas company showed interest in this area and many of…
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Solar Developer Offering $1,000 Per Acre Of Land West Laurens Landowners Get Windfall From Project By JAMES CUMMINGS • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com WEST LAURENS – Storke LLC, a renewable-energy company based in Springwater, south of Rochester, is offering as much as $1,000 per acre per year for West Laurens neighbors to lease their land to the company for a 3,000-acre solar farm. “At 3,000 acres, the project would be one of the largest in New York State,” said James Denn,…
Solar Developer Offering $1,000 Per Acre Of Land West Laurens Landowners Get Windfall From Project FULL REPORT IN THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL, HOMETOWN ONEONTA, ON NEWSSTANDS TODAY…
IN MEMORIAM: Henrietta deVos, 91; Partner In Daughters & deVos Farm WEST LAURENS – Henrietta deVos, 91, a Dutch native, trained seamstress and partner in the Daughters & deVos famr here, passed away at the Waterville Residential Care Center in Waterville, on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019. She was born on March 29, 1928, in Grou, Netherlands, a daughter of the late Nicholas and Alice (Zetsma) Poeze. Henrietta married Harmen deVos on March 11, 1950, in Littlefalls, N.J., a blessed marriage…