Area residents attended a hearing at Bentley Elementary School Tuesday night to voice their concerns regarding the plan to redesign the existing Salem Harbor Power Station.
The natural gas plant slated to replace the coal-fired facility at Salem Harbor Power Station will be smaller, cleaner — and much better looking when all is said and done. On Tuesday, city residents attended to a public hearing at Bentley Elementary School to learn more about Footprint Powers' plan to transform the site into a mixed-use area that will not only power the region, but also provide berths for big cruise ships. The main outlines of the project will be well known to most Salemites. The old coal-burning facility will be all but razed, then replaced on a much smaller scale by a gas-fired power plant. Much of the 65-acre plot would be available for uses other than the plant, which would take up only 22 acres. Toward the Blaney …
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The incident occurred Tuesday afternoon near the Black Lobster.
A Salem man was arrested after a boating incident Tuesday afternoon. Bradford Billing Smith, 43, of 45 Memorial Drive was arrested on charges of operating a motor boat under the influence of liquor and leaving the scene after property damage in connection with the incident. At 1:59 p.m. Tuesday police responded to the area by the Black Lobster to assist the Harbormaster and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection on a report of a boating incident. Police said "a boat crashed into another boat and ran up on the rocks by the Black Lobster." After crashing into the other boat, police said Smith fled the scene. The driving under the influence charge is Smith's third, according to police.
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john
3:16 pm on Thursday, February 28, 2013
Does anyone know how much tax the new plant will pay compared to how much the old plant has been paying? more ›