News from neighbors
Plumb selected for 4-H office
HAXTUN-FLEMING HERALD, May 13 — Brooklyn Plumb, an incoming junior at Haxtun High School, has been selected to represent Colorado State 4-H as District 1 president. The 16-year-old is the daughter of Jeff and Kindra Plumb of Haxtun.
As District 1 president, Plumb will represent the counties of Phillips, Logan, Sedgwick, Yuma, Kit Carson, Washington and Morgan at both the local and state levels. She is responsible for running all district meetings as well as organization and activities of the district. The selection also makes her a part of the state officer team.
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Wind turbine permit gets nod
STERLING JOURNAL-ADVOCATE, May 21 — The Logan County Planning and Zoning Commission has approved a conditional use permit requested by Niyol Wind, LLC, to build a wind farm west and south of Fleming.
Niyol is a wholly-owned subsidiary of NextEra Energy, which owns and operates two wind farms in the Peetz area.
The board voted Tuesday evening to forward the permit to the Logan County Board of Commissioners with a recommendation for approval.
The permit request was tabled at the commission’s April meeting because of opposition from residents in the largely agricultural area. After hearing a barrage of complaints from residents in the area about the wind farm, the planning commission voted 4-2 last month to table conditional use permit application for up to 89 wind turbines.
The opposition has come from a group calling themselves Concerned Citizens for a Safe Logan County. During the April meeting the planning commission members voiced concerns about whether a wind farm is compatible with that area, given the population density. While the area is overwhelmingly rural in nature, commission members noted that many of the objectors don’t own vast tracts of unoccupied land, but smaller, exurban holdings of just a few acres.
Those considerations weren’t voiced Tuesday night, however, although there was some discussion about whether possible changes in regulations should be considered. The Concerned Citizens group also had submitted a list of regulations they’d like to see Logan County adopt concerning wind turbines. Those also had been tabled from the April meeting.
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No motion results on CCS-sponsored preschool for fall
IMPERIAL REPUBLICAN, May 14 — Chase County Schools will not pursue a school-sponsored preschool this fall. After a lengthy discussion Tuesday night, school board members made no motion on the proposal.
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