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Nova Scotia Power customers can now apply to take part in the province’s first community solar garden.
Located in Amherst, the pilot project is an important step in making solar energy more accessible to more customers and helping to build a green economy in Nova Scotia.
Nearly four decades of contributions by the local Zonta club to the citizens of this community were recognized on Nov. 24, 2021, with the issuance of a proclamation declaring Nov. 25 to Dec. 1, 2021, as Zonta Week in the Town of Amherst.
“The Amherst Area Zonta Club is part of a worldwide service organization that works for the advancement of women, legally, socially and economically,” Mayor David Kogon said while signing the proclamation on behalf of Amherst town council.
The Amherst town council’s committee of the whole approved sending amendments to the town’s snow and ice management policy to the Monday, Nov. 29, 2021, council meeting for approval.
The committee gave the approval when it met on Monday, Nov. 22, 2021, after hearing a staff report that recommended amending the policy in order to update the list of town-owned and/or leased parking lots, to include a definition of “bare pavement” and formally establishing a priority sidewalk snow clearing route, which has been in effect on a trial basis for the past two years.
Ben Pitman has left his office at Amherst town hall for the final time.
The longtime town employee decided Nov. 19, 2021, – his 62nd birthday – would be his last day on the job after a 34-year career with the Town of Amherst, the last 13 as its town engineer.
While he officially joined the town fulltime in 1987 as an assistant engineer to Ron Patterson, then the town’s engineer, his association with the town actually began four years earlier while he was a student going to Mount Allison University and the University of New Brunswick, getting degrees in engineering as well as geology and mathematics.