LAKEVILLE Quietly, and without any fanfare, the town’s first cannabis product kitchen was recently cleared to start cooking up marijuana edibles by the Board of Health. Except for the products to be created, it was another routine approval of a commercial kitchen operation for the board.
Bountiful Farms Inc. of Franklin received the license to operate the kitchen at 200 Kenneth Welch Drive in the town’s primary industrial park at the Feb. 3 meeting of the Board of Health after Health Agent Ed Cullen reported finding “everything’s in order” during his pre-opening inspection.
There is already a state licensed cannabis cultivation operation in the building, with the some of the marijuana plants already growing there destined to become the raw material for candies, cookies, and other products containing cannabis that will be manufactured there.
The bridges date to 1966 and 1968, respectively, and both are 62 feet in length. A Federal Highway Administration database listed them as late as 2018 as “scour critical.” Other listed problems included “slumping” embankments, channel obstruction due to debris and vegetation, and some movement in the stream bed.
“Scour” is an engineering term for the phenomenon of water digging holes in stream beds, thus undermining foundations, abutments, and piers. “Scour critical” means erosion countermeasures are needed as soon as possible.
DOT spokesman Brian Ahrens said riprap was installed in 2016 and inspections that year and in September 2020 found the fix was working.
The additional countermeasures are not determined. They could include more riprap, installing articulated concrete blocks, and even monitoring the depth of the creek, Ahrens said.
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The red line indicates where the New England Clean Energy Connect corridor would cross through Wilton into Chesterville. The two green areas labeled as WET-114-01 and WET114-02 are wetland areas that the high-transmission line would cross over.
Screenshot of NECEC map
WILTON The Planning Board on Thursday reviewed the New England Clean Energy Connect’s site plan application relative to the Wilton’s Energy/Transportation Conduits Ordinance and accepted that it was complete.
The NECEC application requests the approval to erect five high-transmission poles in Wilton as part of Central Maine Power Co.’s 145-mile corridor for transporting Hydro-Québec energy from the province of Québec, Canada to Massachusetts.
Pennsylvania looks to boost electric car sales
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HARRISBURG - Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration has begun drafting a regulation that would require automakers to offer electric cars for sale in Pennsylvania as a way to cut emissions of greenhouse gases and pollutants that cause lung problems, it said Friday.
At least 12 states already have a requirement for the zero-emission electric vehicles, including neighbors Maryland, New Jersey and New York.
Drafting a regulation and shepherding it through the approval process often takes a year or more.
The rule would help ensure that automakers offer new zero emissions electric vehicle models for sale in Pennsylvania, the Department of Environmental Protection said. Right now, opportunities to test drive and buy electric vehicles in Pennsylvania are limited, it said.