The Massachusetts Attorney General's office has rejected a Shutesbury general bylaw on large-scale battery energy storage systems, citing overreach in regulating renewable energy and zoning matters.
However, a revised zoning bylaw in the nearby town of Hadley allowing standalone energy storage systems received near-complete approval, as The Daily Hampshire Gazettereported.
A new therapeutic high school designed specifically for students who identify as homosexual or transgender is set to open in western Massachusetts next year.
J.S. Bryant School will serve 38 students and will open in the fall of 2025, it founders say. The school is to be located at the site of the former Cummington Inn, in the western Massachusetts town of Cummington.
