The Berkshire Edge · Hartford, MI
Nearby: Hartford, MINew Marlboro — Hartford Symphony principal clarinetist Sangwon Lee will join cellist Anne Legêne and pianist Larry Wallach for an afternoon of chamber music spanning Beethoven’s classical elegance, Max Bruch’s Romantic lyricism, and Robert Muczynski’s jazz-inflected intensity at 3 p.m. on Sunday, November 15, at Southfield Church. Sunday’s program: Beethoven — Trio in B-flat for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano, Op. 11 Babin — Hillandale Waltzes for Clarinet and Piano (variations on a theme by J. N. Hummel) Muczynski — Fantasy Trio for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano, Op. 26 Bruch; Four Pieces for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano, from “Eight Pieces,” Op. 83 Sunday’s program demonstrates how composers have exploited the clarinet’s expressivity over nearly two centuries, from the elegance of Beethoven and the lyricism of Bruch to Victor Babin’s 1947 waltz variations and Robert Muczynski’s late-20th-century modernism.
Commercial-News · Allegan, MI
Nearby: Allegan, MIThe future of the dam that created Lake Allegan remains unsettled after Michigan regulators gave Consumers Energy more time to negotiate over its proposed sale of 13 hydroelectric dams. The Michigan Public Service Commission voted Nov. 5 to extend its deadline for ruling on the proposal, which includes the Calkins Bridge Dam on the Kalamazoo River. It was the second delay in the case. Any settlement must be filed by 5 p.m. Dec. 9. The commission plans to issue a final order Dec. 17 if no settlement is filed. A further extension would require a joint request from a majority of the parties in the case. The City of Allegan built the dam in 1935, and its power plant began commercial operation in 1936. The city operated it until Consumers Energy bought it in 1969. The dam holds back the Kalamazoo River to form the roughly 1,600-acre Lake Allegan. It is the only hydroelectric plant Consumers owns on the river and can generate about 2.55 megawatts.
Rockland Review News · South Bend, IN
Nearby: South Bend, INA Florida-based energy company called NextNRG wants to buy 33 acres in South Bend, Indiana, for a proposed data center and power project. The company announced Thursday that it signed a term sheet to buy the land from Envision South Bend LLC in a deal valued at $22 million, according to WNDU. Here's the catch: that term sheet is nonbinding. The price and the whole arrangement remain subject to negotiation and other approvals, and no construction timeline has been given. So what got announced this week is a starting position, not a done deal. Still, the outline is worth reading closely, because it says a lot about how data center projects are being assembled across the country right now — and about what a community can and cannot tell from an early announcement like this one. Stories like this matter well beyond one city; big-site deals reshape local tax bases wherever they land, which is something readers tracking business development in their own communities will recognize.
