Rafael Oseguera of Fort Smith installs solar panels Tuesday on a canopy under construction at 215 Garrison Ave. in Fort Smith. The canopy will cover the Fort Smith Farmers Market and is expected to produce 500,000 kilowatt hours of electricity annually. The 340-kilowatt panels will span the two central parking rows. Visit rivervalleydemocratgazette.com/rvphotos for today’s photo gallery.
(River Valley Democrat-Gazette/Johnathan Brewer)
Rafael Oseguera of Fort Smith installs solar panels Tuesday on a canopy under construction at 215 Garrison Ave. in Fort Smith. The canopy will cover the Fort Smith Farmers Market and is expected to produce 500,000 kilowatt hours of electricity annually. The 340-kilowatt panels will span the two central parking rows. Visit rivervalleydemocratgazette.com/rvphotos for today’s photo gallery. (River Valley Democrat-Gazette/Johnathan Brewer)
Solar panels are installed Tuesday on a canopy under construction at 215 Garrison Ave. in Fort Smith. The canopy will cover the Fort Smith Farmers Market and is expected to produce 500,000 kilowatt hours of electricity annually. The 340-kilowatt panels will span the two central parking rows. Visit rivervalleydemocratgazette.com/rvphotos for today’s photo gallery.
(River Valley Democrat-Gazette/Johnathan Brewer)
Solar panels are installed Tuesday on a canopy under construction at 215 Garrison Ave. in Fort Smith. The canopy will cover the Fort Smith Farmers Market and is expected to produce 500,000 kilowatt hours of electricity annually. The 340-kilowatt panels will span the two central parking rows. Visit rivervalleydemocratgazette.com/rvphotos for today’s photo gallery. (River Valley Democrat-Gazette/Johnathan Brewer)
Andy Shupe grew up in Berea, Ky. and started taking photographs for newspapers and working for his school paper during his senior year in high school. He came to Fayetteville to begin working for the newspaper as a photographer in 1993 after graduating from Berea College with a degree in biology.
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