Dear Crawford County Friends,
The March 19,2024 Primary Election is fast approaching. Two county commissioners are up for re-election on the ballot. It’s time for Crawford County citizens to make their voices heard at the ballot. Counties in Ohio and other states are taking steps to protect fertile farm land from future large scale solar and industrial wind projects. We’re grateful to the two commissioners who signed the Industrial wind turbine referendum but realize now, that the ban should have been permanent and included large scale Solar projects.
The Ohio Power Siting Board approved the Sycamore Creek Solar project several years ago. This project is slated to begin this year, covering approximately 917 acres in Cranberry Township outside of New Washington. In June of 2023 at a Commissioners mtg I asked if they would ever consider a referendum to prevent further large scale solar projects and they answered NO! Hopefully they will reconsider as the potential of these large scale Solar project expanding is very concerning. We need to elect commissioners who will listen to their constituents, just as when we spoke loud and clear in November of 2022, with the land slide Victory on Issue 4.
In this upcoming election Mr. Jeff Price is running to unseat an incumbent commissioner who supported the Honey Creek Wind Project. Price has stated “Together we can stop large scale solar and industrial wind projects, quit outsourcing our county services and put our county and its residents as top priority“. You can read more about Jeff Price on his Facebook page “Jeff Price for County Commissioner”.
There should be more transparency at the commissioners office for example, Live stream video of weekly open public meetings; weekly agenda posted on website; Our citizens deserve to know early on about what’s being planned in our county, not after the fact.
Our countys future is up to you, make your vote count. I’ll be voting for Jeff Price.
Sincerely,
Sarah Nye
New Washington, OH