By Michael Faher

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NEWFANE >> After years of work, the Brookline-Newfane Joint School Board is moving forward with three energy projects.

Officials have begun seeking contractors to build and maintain a new solar array at NewBrook Elementary; to install a sophisticated new heating/cooling system at the school; and to install three new, gas-fired boilers.

Two of those projects were approved in a special vote last fall, and school officials have said the overall idea is to provide energy and HVAC services to the regional elementary in a less-expensive, more-efficient manner that also reduces the institution's carbon footprint.

"We're taking the next step in the selection process to find appropriate entities to take on this work," said Victor "Bud" DeBonis, chief financial officer for Windham Central Supervisory Union.

Any company interested in the projects can receive complete bidding documents by contacting contact DeBonis at 802-365-9510 or vdebonis@windhamcentral.org. Bids are due by 4 p.m. April 3 at the Windham Central office.

DeBonis said officials, in addition to advertising for contractors in local media, have searched online for qualified companies that might want to undertake such projects. "We've done our best to make sure we have quality bidders," he said.

He added that "there were some firms that approached us and asked us to send them information ... for the solar, primarily."

The planned solar project consists of a 500-kilowatt generating facility that would be constructed on school land. Voters initially rejected the project in June 2014, but members of the school board and a volunteer Energy Committee revised the plan, which was then accepted via a 195-96 vote at an Oct. 23 special meeting.

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Its almost finished and the fish are coming.

Thats the promise as one of the last major structural items on the Mossom Creek Hatchery rebuild was completed and the new hatchery equipment installed.

A green roof, provided by Architek Engineered Solutions for Living Buildings, was planted on a cold but sunny winter day two weeks ago. Plumbing and wiring for coho tubs, incubator trays and monitoring equipment is just about finished.

Now, volunteers are getting ready to accept coho and chum salmon fry in tanks and tubs they have been preparing for weeks.

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Project co-ordinator Pat Dennett, one of a bevy of volunteers working on the hatcherys resurrection, is fond of saying Were on schedule and on budget and he can continue to say those words as the fish hatchery, built with $1.15 million in community, business and government donations and in-kind services, gets ready to resume operations.

Within days, the first chum fry from the Alouette River and the first coho fry from Noons Creek are expected to arrive.

Then the work of caring for the fish begins.

Were pretty excited, Dennett told The Tri-City News during a tour of the facility.

Several months of planning and construction are coming to fruition but for retired educator and Mossom hatchery founder Ruth Foster, one of the biggest moments of the rebuild was the installation of the green roof.

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MANILA, PhilippinesThe Office of the Ombudsman may move for the arrest and cite in contempt Makati Mayor Jejomar Erwin Junjun Binay if he continues to defy the preventive suspension against him for graft and malversation over the allegedly overpriced Makati parking building.

The Ombudsman has the power to cite a person in contempt if he disobeys an order of the Ombudsman,Assistant Ombudsman Asryman Rafanan said ina press conference Thursday.

While the Ombudsman has no direct prosecutorial powers, it may file before the Regional Trial Court a petition for contempt against a person who may be arrested for defying the Ombudsmans orders.

Mayor Binay has holed himself up in the Makati City Hall in defiance of the six-month suspension order. He accused Interior Secretary Mar Roxas of having an unseen hand in the Ombudsman through lawyers affiliated with the special panel of investigators.

Rafanandenied Binaysallegations that Roxas had lawyers in the special panel of investigators,which found strong evidence of guilt that gave way to the filing of the malversation and graft complaintbefore the Ombudsman.

The Ombudsman goes by the evidence There is no truth to that, Rafanan said.

The Ombudsman vouches for the integrity of its investigators who came from different offices of the Ombudsman The respondents are expected to answer the charges regardless of external insinuations that they may have, he added.

The Philippine Daily Inquirer quoted Binay as saying theOmbudsmans special panel of investigators included prosecutors affiliated with Simeon Marcelo, former Ombudsman and law partner of Nonong Cruz.

They are not only lawyers of Interior Secretary Mar Roxas but are also known as his operators, the mayor said in the report, noting that the DILG was the implementing agency of the suspension order.

They have legal remedies if they have proof of this supposed connections, Rafanan said.

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