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Volume 57, Number 47 • November 24, 2010

Commission won’t support wind turbines Capturing wind for energy a long way off in Goochland County By Jim Ridolphi Special Correspondent

If the Goochland Planning Commission has anything to say about it, the prospect of operating small wind turbines is not in the countys immediate future. The panel did not recommend approval of an ordinance change that would have allowed the updated windmills in some zoning districts. Most of the commissioners agreed the expanding technology would not be economically feasible for single-family-owned homes in the Goochland area. First of all, it came out at the meeting that the county’s elevation is not conducive to the high wind levels needed to generate power. And County Planner Tom Coleman said his office had not received any requests for a permit to construct one of the monopoles. The new ordinance would have allowed monopole structures up to 199 feet on private land in zoning districts A-1, A-2, F-C, M-1 and M-2. Conditional use permits would be

Photo by Ken Odor

Sheap shearer Derrick Spangler working Sunday at Tuckahoe Plantation. Spangler said he travels all over the U.S. making his living shearing sheep. Emily Lenschow, owner of the sheep that were being sheared, works on herding them into the chute for their haircuts.

Sheep shearing at Tuckahoe Plantation “It’s like the equivalent of running three marathons,” said Spangler, who makes his living traveling all over the U.S. shearing Derrick Spangler was shearing sheep at sheep, llamas and alpacas. The occasion was the (for most of Tuckahoe Plantation Sunday afternoon. them) twice yearly shearing of the flock of Eighty of them. Simply Abundant Farm, owned by Emily He took a break after the first 29. Just 51 more to go. see Sheep > page 5 By Ken Odor jodor@goochlandgazette.com

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2 Opinion 11 Sports 12 - 15 TV Listings 4-5 6

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SPORTS Cougar comeback intercepted > page 7

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