The newspaper you’re holding — or looking at on-line — came to you in part courtesy of the sun.
So far this year, solar power from an array atop the Jefferson County Standard Banner’s 122 West Old Andrew Johnson Highway office in Jefferson City accounted for 80 percent of the electricity used there, not including the big press downstairs.
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