{"id":3473,"date":"2011-01-04T06:05:37","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T11:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3473"},"modified":"2011-01-05T11:03:11","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T16:03:11","slug":"morning-read-wind-farm-pays-big-property-tax-dividends-in-lewis-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/01\/04\/morning-read-wind-farm-pays-big-property-tax-dividends-in-lewis-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read: Wind farm pays big (property tax) dividends in Lewis County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big wind farms are controversial across the North Country, with many towns struggling over how to regulate the giant turbines.\u00a0 But in Lewis County, the pay-off from the (relatively) new industry are tangible.<\/p>\n<p>This from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20110104\/NEWS04\/301049981\">Watertown Daily Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Maple Ridge Wind Farm municipalities have received an  $8.94 million payment from the wind farm, one year after getting only  about one-quarter of the requested initial payment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is  really good news,&#8221; said Kenneth J. McAuliffe, district superintendent at  Lowville Academy and Central School, the biggest beneficiary from the  15-year payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement with the wind farm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It  definitely means a lot to the district&#8217;s good financial health.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20110104\/NEWS04\/301049981\">full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big wind farms are controversial across the North Country, with many towns struggling over how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[10,883],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}