Voters will decide if Higgins Pit Funds Should Be Used for Town Facility Improvements CARRIE JONES AUG 08, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—It will be up to voters in November to determine if the $4.35 million they had approved to create the now-defunct Higgins Pit Solar Array Project, should now be used for capital improvements to town-owned properties that will be used to reduce carbon emissions, … Continue reading What To Do With $4.35 Million in Bar Harbor?
Council will wait for more details and discuss solar array at its next meeting CARRIE JONES APR 18, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—The Town Council did not hear an update on the Higgins Pit Solar project on Tuesday nor did it work on a resolve about the project. At the meeting’s beginning Vice Chair Gary Friedmann suggested taking discussion of the project out of the agenda. … Continue reading Higgins Pit Discussion Postponed
Public Meeting Tonight in Trenton Focuses On Potential Land Use Changes CARRIE JONES MAR 20, 2024 Share TRENTON—The future of how and where solar farms could be placed in Trenton is currently up to its voters, who will have a chance to approve or reject changes to the town’s land use ordinance at the May town meeting. The changes would allow the development of utilities … Continue reading Some Residents Push Back on Solar Farms in Trenton
Costs and lower production dominate discussion SHAUN FARRAR JAN 18, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR––According to Town Council Vice Chair Gary Friedmann, the concept for the Higgins Pit solar array came along eight years ago. It has been a long road to get the project where it is today, including having to change a section of the town’s land use ordinance to allow ground-mounted solar, and … Continue reading Several Councilors Worry Over Higgins Pit Solar Project
Solar Array, Marina, Housing: Council and staff and volunteers tackle them all CARRIE JONES DEC 21, 2023 Share BAR HARBOR—“It’s been a year. That’s what I feel about the end of this year,” Bar Harbor Town Council Chair Valerie Peacock said at the end of the Council’s last meeting of the calendar year, December 19. For the Town Council, it’s been a year full of … Continue reading “It’s Been a Year.”
