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Blue Ridge Spends To Save
By Ted Brewster

The Blue Ridge School Board at a meeting on January 24 obligated the district to spend $114,778 on the promise of substantial savings in the future. The session was actually a meeting of the Facilities & Grounds Committee augmented by a brief meeting of the full board and an even shorter workshop.

The committee discussed two projects with Nick Sracic of Johnson Controls, the company chosen by the Board to study and implement energy-related measures that the Board hopes will substantially cut the district’s consumption of energy, and perhaps erect a large wind-energy installation to provide power to the campus.

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Hallstead Boro Confronts Drainage

The monthly meeting of the Hallstead Borough Council was to have been held on January 20, but could not take place due to lack of a quorum. A resident had come to ask council to look into a water problem in the area of Fourth Ave. At the rescheduled meeting on January 27, council continued discussion of the situation after having inspected the area in question. It was agreed that a collapsed storm drain should be fixed, but that nothing could be done until spring after the ground thaws. And, part of the problem appears to have been caused by someone closing one end of a drain pipe.

Between now and spring, council will inspect the streets and draw up prioritized lists of drainage work and areas in need of paving, to be addressed as the budget allows.

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