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Concord voters have one last chance tonight to size up the candidates for city council and school board who are running for contested citywide seats. The Concord Taxpayers Association is sponsoring the forum at the Beaver Meadow Golf Course clubhouse. The forum will feature at-large city council candidates Jim Baer, Rick Cibotti, Michael DelloIacono and incumbent Dan St. Hilaire from 7 to 7:45 p.m., followed by school board candidates Bill Glahn and Tom Croteau at 8 p.m. The candidates will make state  

Minnesota may need a new 500-megawatt coal-fired power plant to meet growing demand, according to a Department of Commerce study that will be presented to state lawmakers today. The study by the department's Office of Energy Security is meant to be a forecasting tool for policy-makers, but environmentalists who oppose building more coal power plants say the study isn't specific enough to be of much practical use. "I am not going to lie awake at night and worry about a new coal-fired power plant," said

I am not going to lie awake at night and worry about a new coal-fired power plant   -Linda Taylor

 

Rather than fixating on the number of green jobs, Minnesota officials and environmental professionals and advocates on Friday agreed to concentrate on boosting energy efficiency and building up renewable energy sources. Increased efficiency was the dominant theme Friday during the TwinWest Chamber of Commerce's legislative breakfast at the Doubletree Hotel Park Place in St. Louis Park. The event — designed to focus on green energy, green jobs, and whether predictions of future savings from renewable en

Clean energy is the wave of the future   -Bill Glahn

 

Competition arrived at the last minute in the Concord School Board elections. Filing on the last day were former school board member Bill Glahn for the one-year term and engineer Doug Magee for a three-year term. The additions mean four candidates are running for the three three-year spots, and two candidates are running for the one-year position to be vacated by board Vice President Megan DeVorsey.  

A commission called to study the process of changing the Concord School District charter met last night to select officers and plan its agenda. The Concord district is the only one in New Hampshire whose charter remains subject to legislative control. Concord lawmakers urged the Legislature this year to allow the school district to amend its own charter.  

A burst of positive energy began the Aug. 20 District 911 School Board meeting when its energy-saving program received several accolades. The district earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's "Energy Star Award" by reducing its energy consumption by 27 percent since joining the Schools for Energy Efficiency (SEE) Program four and a half years ago. Presenting that award at the meeting was Bill Glahn, director of the MN Dept. of Commerce's Office of Energy Security.

Your school district is the fourth in Minnesota to receive the Energy Star Leader Award and one of only 66 across the country who achieved over 23.4 percent energy savings   -Bill Glahn

 

Minnesota has a state Office of Energy Security, and its director, Bill Glahn, is traveling around the state to see how local communities can promote renewable energy. Speaking in Red Wing this week, said it'll be up to the locals to make this work, according to the Red Wing Republican Eagle . "The solution to all this is not going to come from Washington. It's not going to come from St. Paul," Glahn said.

The solution to all this is not going to come from Washington. It's not going to come from St. Paul   -Bill Glahn