Tempers flare at solar forum
By Tim Colliver - tcolliver@aimmediamidwest.com
It was standing room only at the Lynchburg fire station for Tuesday’s solar farm discussion. Organizers of the event estimated nearly 200 people were in attendance.
Tim Colliver | The Times-Gazette
LYNCHBURG One concerned citizen called the area “the wild west of solar panels,” and it was a frustrated, exasperated and at times hostile crowd that greeted State Rep. Shane Wilkin (R-Hillsboro) in the Lynchburg fire station Tuesday evening.
The standing room only event was called to allow private citizens whose property either bordered on or was adjacent to any of the three proposed solar panel farms in the Lynchburg area to air their grievances about perceived devaluation of property values, loss of productive farm land, wildlife and health concerns, and fears of pollution of ground water.
Trustees will appeal biodigester ruling
By London Bishop - lbishop@aimmediamidwest.com
London Bishop | Greene County News Protesters outside the Bath Township building prior to the trustee meeting the evening of May 5.
Cars honk at protestors, who gathered at the Bath Township building Wednesday to object to a ruling declaring the Dovetail biodigester a public utility.
BATH TOWNSHIP The Bath Township trustees will move forward with an appeal of a Greene County Common Pleas Court ruling declaring the Dovetail biodigester, located in Bath Township, as a public utility. The ruling, handed down by Judge Michael Buckwalter, exempts Dovetail from township zoning regulations and would require the township to vacate notices of violation against the facility.
After FBI agents searched his German Village condo in November, attorney Samuel Randazzo began off loading real estate holdings worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
In February, he transferred ownership of a house in the Columbus suburb of Grandview that he bought in 2013 for $346,000 to Samuel Brewster Randazzo for no money. In March, he sold a house in nearby Marble Cliff for $615,950, less than five months after buying it for $600,000.
Randazzo is in contract to sell his 2,836-square-foot waterfront condo in Naples for an estimated $3.9 million, according to Redfin.
Randazzo resigned as chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio in November, following the FBI raid and a disclosure by FirstEnergy Corp. that it paid $4.3 million in January 2019 to an unnamed individual who subsequently was appointed as a state utility regulator.