The Knox Town Board postponed until March a vote to submit an application for the Clean Energy Communities grant, which the town has been in process of applying for since completing four energy-saving “action items” last summer.
BETHLEHEM — When questioned by Bethlehem Police after his car rear-ended another on Feb. 10, Jason S. Nurmi, 33, of East Greenbush displayed a badge to Bethlehem officers and claimed to be an investigator with a state task force, said a police spokesman this week, adding that Nurmi was impaired by drugs at the time.
In Knox, the planning board has been overseeing an application for a nine-lot subdivision, while the town board considers blight laws and business districts.
A young woman has come forward to claim that Franklin Casatelli raped her nine years ago, when she was 14. Casatelli was sentenced earlier this month for raping a University at Albany student as she slept in her dorm room.
While the Berne-Knox-Westerlo board said it would pursue other options for students interested in the military, the superintendent said that JROTC is “not feasible for September.”
Switzkill Farm’s dark skies and vast landscape make it a promising spot to build an observatory, although the group Helderberg Earth and Sky Observatory is waiting to obtain not-for-profit status before building in the Hilltowns.
VOORHEESVILLE — To the outside observer without small children, the Library Tots program at the Voorheesville Public Library may look like chaos being controlled through song and rhyme, but for parents Library Tots is preparing their children’s cognitive and linguistic development so that they will be ready to learn how to re
ALBANY COUNTY — Sharifabdul Ali, 48, of Selkirk, who had been charged under Leandra’s Law for driving drunk with a child, a felony, pleaded guilty on Feb. 7.
He made the plea in Albany County Court before Judge Peter A. Lynch.
Kathy Meany, an Altamont resident, will be honored for her dedication and support of conservation efforts in the Capital Region at an upcoming Mohawk Hudson Land Conservancy awards dinner.
GUILDERLAND — After driving drunk last summer in a Crossgates Mall parking lot, Sean Kelly of Albany was sentenced on Feb. 6 to four months in Albany County’s jail, to be followed by five years of probation, for aggravated driving while intoxicated, a felony.
