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A modest suggestion for 100 Bridge St.

In her letter to the editor, Renee Harvitt writes: "Wouldn’t it be safer to put up solar panels on the site?"

 

To the Editor:

Given all of the complications and controversy regarding the use of the brownfields at 100 Bridge Street, wouldn’t it be safer and easier and better all around to put up 8 acres of solar panels on the site?

How much electricity could be generated per year there?

Renee Harvitt

Great Barrington, Mass.

 

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