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Volunteers are being asked to help out at schools that are laying off staff because of drastic, last-minute, pandemic-induced budget cuts. “We need volunteer organizations now more than ever,” said Albany County Executive Daniel McCoy on Friday. “We need parents to help out, teach.”

Chris VanPatten, whose family owned a Guilderland farmhouse for nearly a century, before selling it five years ago, was sad to see it burn on Friday.

Although it wasn’t an exact figure, New Scotland Councilman Adam Greenberg said residents could expect to pay about 12-percent to 13-percent higher than National Grid’s current grid mix.

A 20-year-old man from outside of Hong Kong died by suicide at Thacher Park on Wednesday. 

“The president says he’s going to have a vaccine,” said Governor Andrew Cuomo on Thursday. “CDC is talking about a vaccine in early November. How convenient. It’s going to be an Election Day miracle drug. Some people are concerned that the vaccine may wind up being hydroxychloroquine.”

A recording of an executive session held by the Berne Town Board was made public after Councilman Joel Willsey, a Democrat who claims he was harassed by the GOP-backed board members in the April 29 session, made a motion for its release. 

County Executive Daniel McCoy

And a Siena poll released on Wednesday found that, despite venues being open, majorities of New Yorkers are not comfortable dining indoors in restaurants or going to gyms, bowling alleys, or bars. More than half of New Yorkers, 51 percent, say the worst of the coronavirus pandemic is yet to come, and 86 percent are concerned that New York will face a large outbreak in the fall.

The Altamont Board of Trustees voted this week to solicit bids for the demolition of the Doctor Frederick Crounse House.

The Berne Town Board voted at its Aug. 26 meeting to not take part in a regional shared-services agreement that would have formalized the already common practice of using other towns’ highway-department resources. The surprising vote appeared to be an attempt to spite the town board’s lone Democrat. 

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BETHLEHEM — At noon on Wednesday, Scott Dansey, a senior staff member for SABIC Innovative Plastics in Selkirk, told the press that, in a day and a half, the hazardous situation, where a chemical had escaped from a train car, had been brought under control.

“Whether you have signs or symptoms, please go out and get tested …,” said Albany County Executive Daniel McCoy. “It’s the only way we’re going to track this. It’s the only way we’re going to know if the virus is still lingering out there … It didn’t go away.”

Frank Macri

With school reopening right around the corner, Voorheesville is gearing up for the new normal. 

BETHLEHEM — Alerts sent out to residents by the town of New Scotland said that there had been a “hazardous materials incident” this morning just over the town border at SABIC in Selkirk; residents who live within one mile of the facility are being advised to shelter-in-

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