THE STATE’S HIGHEST COURT ruled Tuesday that a decision by a small town in Central Massachusetts to block a solar project in the name of tree preservation was “improper.” The Supreme Judicial Court’s ruling breathes new life into a proposed solar farm and battery storage project from Sunpin Energy Services over the objections of Petersham, a remote town of 1,200 near the Quabbin Reservoir that consists of 97 percent forest. The case centered on …