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Question of the Day By - Associated Press - Wednesday, February 24, 2021
GEORGETOWN, S.C. (AP) - A South Carolina city has approved a zoning change to make it easier for residents to install solar panels, and get credit for any power they contribute to the grid.
The Georgetown City Council voted this month to allow solar panels to be installed on any residential or nonresidential property, from single-family homes to shopping centers, The Post and Courier reported.
Alan Loveless, Georgetown’s director of electric utilities, said customers who contribute excess solar energy to the grid will be paid back at wholesale prices.
Georgetown City Council voted in a Feb. 21 special meeting to extend the state of disaster through March 23.
The initial state of disaster was signed on Feb. 14 by Mayor Josh Schroeder. In order to extend the declaration beyond day seven, it needed a council vote, city officials said.
Under this declaration, the mayor is designated as the emergency management director for the city.
The mayor has the power to:
Evacuate all or part of the population of an area of the city that has been stricken or is threatened if necessary for the preservation of life or other disaster mitigation;
Prescribe routes, modes of transportation and destinations in connection with an evacuation; and
January 31, 2021
Rajan Zed
The Georgetown Town Council, reportedly for the first time since its establishment in 1791, opened its Jan. 27 meeting with Hindu prayer containing verses from the world’s oldest extant scripture.
Hindu statesman Rajan Zed delivered the invocation from ancient Sanskrit scriptures remotely before the council meeting. After Sanskrit delivery, he then read the English interpretation of the prayers. Sanskrit is considered a sacred language in Hinduism and root language of Indo-European languages.
President of the Universal Society of Hinduism, Zed recited from Rig-Veda, the oldest scripture of the world still in common use. He also recited lines from Upanishads and Bhagavad-Gita (Song of the Lord), both ancient Hindu scriptures. He started and ended the prayer with “Om,” the mystical syllable containing the universe, which in Hinduism is used to introduce and conclude religious work.
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Voters go to the polls on Williamson County on Nov. 3. The Place 2 election on Georgetown City Council moved on to a runoff this fall.
Shawn Hood defeated Lisa King in the runoff election Tuesday and will take the vacant District 2 seat on the Georgetown City Council.
Hood is a longtime Williamson County resident and owns an architectural design practice in downtown Georgetown.