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Entries from December 2007

Company Seeks Help to Augment Wind Farm’s Energy Production

December 31st, 2007 · 3 Comments

That’s using your head. Not a phrase you hear on a regular basis in Tyrone, but local officials and wind farm proponents are hoping residents do just that to augment the power produced by a proposed wind farm.
Residents will be required to wear “cranial wind-energy catching units,” also called CWECs, to add to power created […]

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Tags: Tyrone · Windmills

Preacher’s Cat Possessed by Satan.

December 31st, 2007 · No Comments

Does this signal the End Times?
They say that one good turn deserves another, but it didn’t work out that way for the Rev. Wilbur J. Pettigrew.
Early last spring, his family found and adopted a starving kitten that had stumbled into the church parsonage.
It took several weeks to nurse the kitten back to health, but […]

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Tags: Religion

Tyrone Considers Turning Windmills into Section 8 Housing Units

December 31st, 2007 · 1 Comment

Tyrone borough officials are exploring how a windfarm could serve a dual use–as a housing project and an eye sore.
A recent proposal to construct a windfarm in the area has made some officials suggest that the huge 400-foot structures could serve as apartments for the town’s booming section 8 population.
“I don’t know whether a windmill […]

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Tags: Tyrone · Windmills