DUANESBURG — Joseph J. Merli made history tangible through objects. He fixed things no one else could, and he sought to preserve the industrial heritage that built America.
The town board proposed an amendment to allow a procedure for making exceptions to the term-limit rules for planning and zoning board members and appointed Laura Ten Eyck to the town board.
A potato effigy of an employee was hung and allowed to remain, according to a former town employee, but officials say every letter of the law has been followed.
McKownville, Westmere, and North Bethlehem firefighters help move Amanda Sawyer into her new home after hers was destroyed by fire in McKownville two weeks ago.
Although the recently elected supervisor said he wanted "new blood" on the planning board, the town board members re-appointed the board's 40-year member, Daniel Driscoll, over his objections.
Membership in the Guilderland Chamber of commerce plummeted with Obamacare, but is stable now with a focus local business, says the chamber's president who is leaving for a new job.
The new superintendent said that, at the next school board meeting, district programs that alleviate harassment will be explained. "Our mantra has been find it and fix it," he said.
Comments from residents who served on or valued the Budget Advisory Committee moved the school board to postpone its plans to suspend the volunteer group.
The Albany County Department of Public Works found large trees and brush close to the border of the rail trail in Slingerlands, but determined that the debris was on private property.
The state’s Urban Development Corporation, called Empire State Development, last month denied Henner’s Freedom of Information request for public records from the Broadband Program Office.
