By Paul Sylvain

The Machias Selectboard voted on Aug. 13 to extend the current moratorium on new solar and wind farm applications an additional 180 days. The current moratorium, which began in March, was set to expire sometime in September.

The selectboard delegated the town’s planning board to draft the ordinances after the first moratorium was voted on nearly six months ago. Until the planning board’s meeting earlier this month, little had been done to begin work on the ordinances.