Your Turn: Feedback on solar projects, historical society & e-bike law

WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) — Officials say 16 solar projects are proposed in Jefferson County. That’s why officials are giving data to municipalities, arming them with arguments against projects if local officials don’t want them:

So glad the awareness is picking up momentum! Happy to see officials are getting involved!

Karen Warriner

It should be more than concerning. This is an irreplaceable loss of farm land for a nominal gain of solar energy.

Joe Lawler

Ahh the backwards north country. Don’t they teach science in the schools here, or did nobody bother to go to class?

Felis Sylvestris

The Jefferson County Historical Society is temporarily closed after losing its insurance coverage and nonprofit status:

Many of these problems likely stem from monetary shortfalls. We need to either support these institutions…or we’ll continue to watch them die.

Tim Abel

They need a new board of directors & executive director that understand how a not-for-profit operates and the rules governing them. I can comment on this as a retired executive director of a reasonably large not-for-profit agency.

Elaina Marra Clapper

Lowville passed a new e-bike law last week that “rubber-stamps” a New York state law:

Why would they go to the trouble of passing a law that’s exactly the same as an existing law?

Matt Entwistle

(There) needs to be something like driver education except for bikes taught in schools.

Steve Saviski