Monks gain support in fight over wind project Historic preservationists say Mohawk Valley turbines would disrupt serenity of monastic life By BRIAN NEARING, Staff writer First published: Saturday, January 5, 2008 JORDANVILLE -- The sky above this rolling Mohawk Valley farmland is a battleground between golden onion-shaped domes of the nation's largest Russian Orthodox monastery and sweeping wind turbine towers intended to harvest clean power. On Friday, a statewide historic preservation group sided with Holy Trinity Monastery of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, where monks fear a proposed wind farm a mile away will disturb contemplative religious life. "The monastery...