I know I’m not alone in my belief that time is a strange thing. Sometimes things that happened long ago seem like just yesterday, and sometimes things are new – yet it’s hard to remember a time when they didn’t exist. As I looked back on the pages of our newspaper from just ten years ago, I was a little surprised this week to see an article mentioning “Somerset’s proposed new energy center” – still just a dream for which ground had not even been broken.
The energy center has become such a landmark in the downtown Somerset area, it’s hard to believe that it didn’t even exist ten years ago. I have included a large portion of the article about the energy center, because it’s interesting to see which plans stuck and which were adjusted. (Note that the original plans were to tear down the building that was then city hall.
That structure remains to this day and has been used to house a few small businesses over the years.) Here’s what was newsworthy in Pulaski County this week in 2014, from the pages of the Commonwealth Journal. Groundbreaking ceremonies for Somerset’s proposed new energy center will be held in two or three weeks, Somerset Mayor Eddie Girdler said Wednesday.
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Somerset City Council accepted a low bid of $9,180,000 from D.W. Wilburn of Lexington and Somerset to build the energy center.
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The energy complex, designed by Brandstetter Carroll Inc., Lexington, is a unique structure, probably the only one of its kind in the nation. It will b.