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🌱 What Yorktown’s failed battery ban means for future energy projects.

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Tuesday September 29th Patch AM
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In today's newsletter:

  • What Yorktown's failed battery ban means for future energy projects.
  • How a Yorktown family's tragedy shaped the fiery NY-17 debate.

Also on today's calendar: Antique Appraisal Day - Peekskill and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What do you call a one-legged Big Foot? 🤔 (Answer below!)


Weather forecast:

  • Tuesday: Variable cloudiness, with a high of 68 and low of 54 degrees.
  • Wednesday: Partly sunny and pleasant, temps: high: 74, low: 58.
  • Thursday: Partly sunny and pleasant, with a high of 79 and low of 64 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• McManus Appears in Albany Times Union (harrisbeachmurtha.com) — Yorktown is highlighted statewide for a local ban on battery storage facilities that was overturned in court, signaling how judges increasingly treat grid-scale storage as essential infrastructure. For Yorktown residents, the case shows that outright prohibitions on these projects may not hold, shifting future fights over locations and safety standards from the town board into the courtroom.
   

• Rep. Mike Lawler, challenger Cait Conley slug it out on the issues during N.Y.-17 debate (cbsnews.com) — Voters in northern Westchester, including Yorktown residents, heard Rep. Mike Lawler and challenger Cait Conley clash over affordability, immigration, and data centers in a closely watched NY-17 debate. The parents of Sheridan Gorman, an 18-year-old from Yorktown killed in March, pressed both candidates on cooperation with federal immigration authorities and sanctuary policies.
   


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