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By Thom Randall thom@denpubs.com CHESTERTOWN — While people and or ganizations ar e mer ely talking about “going gr een,’ the Town of Chester is really doing something about it — in a big way. Within weeks, the government’s municipal buildings and other facilities acr oss town will be substantially energized by solar power. The town is the first municipality in the Adirondacks to convert to solar power, town of ficials and their consulting engineers said this week. The town has signed a contract with Edge Design & Consulting to install and maintain vast arrays of solar panels at the town Municipal Center , the town highway garage, transfer station and r ecycling center complex, as well as Dynamite Hill warming hut, and the Chester-Horicon Health Center. The solar arrays at each of these sites will provide most CONTINUED ON PAGE 20
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Children attending Christmas in Warrensburgh Saturday, Dec. 3 share holiday greetings with Santa outside the town hall, transformed into ‘Toyland’ for a day. Photo by John Franchini
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Q U E E N S B U RY — Wi t h Michael Swan moving into the Warren County Treasurer ’s post as of Jan. 2, county leaders ar e now in the process of selecting a new
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chief of the county Real Property Services of fice, which Swan now heads up. Sources at the county said this week that the leading candidate for the new Director of Real Property is Lexie Delurey, the present Deputy Director of the of fice. They said that Delurey, a resident
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