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There’s no red-carpet welcome for a major commercial solar project in a residential area — at least not yet. The Zoning Board of Appeals posed some tough questions to developer Allco Renewable Energy Ltd. at Wednesday’s initial hearing on an application seeking a variance from town zoning bylaws. It’s proposed for 383 Housatonic St., near the Lenox Dale industrial zone. But nearly all of the property is in the 1-acre residential zone. And the town’s bylaws rule out a solar array in that homeowner zone next to the Mountain View...

Allco Renewable Energy cites state law allowing joint use of agricultural land for farming and for solar installations. But the Lenox zoning bylaw allows solar facilities only in industrial zones,

BENNINGTON — A bid by a developer to move two large solar projects in the Apple Hill area to a different Bennington location was shot down by the Public Utility

BENNINGTON — The Select Board was unanimous Monday in supporting the proposed settlement of more than seven years of controversy and litigation surrounding two commercial solar generating facilities planned for