A small town takes a solar developer to court and four more stories
ADVERTISEMENT The Saturday Send Welcome back to the Saturday Send, a weekly digest of stories from CommonWealth Beacon that you may have missed. This week, reporter Jordan Wolman covers the legal battle between solar developer Sunpin and the small town of Petersham over a project to install 12,000 panels , generating 4.3 megawatts of power but requiring the clearing of 14 acres of forest. The Supreme Judicial Court, which heard arguments on Wednesday on the matter, will make a decision sometime in the next couple of months that could shape siting and permitting decisions for projects to come. Plus, the feud between Auditor Diana DiZoglio and Attorney General Andrea Campbell takes a strange turn over a text message, a Bellingham man grapples with the last-mile costs of greening his home's electricity, a family child care incubator in Worcester gives providers a boost, and House Speaker Ron Mariano calls the ballot initiat...