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Holliston board set to reject big solar project in small neighborhood

Proponents say idea not dead yet

By Jose Martinez

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  March 25, 2012

Neighbors of a historically preserved farm in Holliston appear to have won their fight to keep a large-scale solar power facility from being built on a hay field. The planning board voted unanimously Thursday night to draft a letter denying the developers a permit to build a 7,400-panel solar array capable of churning out 2 megawatts of electricity a year on the 350-year-old Bullard Memorial Farm.

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