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WARREN — A Massachusetts company received approval Feb. 8 from the Warren Planning Board for a solar farm off Route 90.

The project by Knox Solar Energy LLC of Jamaica Plain, Mass. would be a 38 megawatt solar farm located on 104 acres owned by Allen's Blueberry Freezer, Inc. of Ellsworth. The land is located at the end of Rocky Hill Road off Route 90.

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