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Week LXVIII: County COVID rates remain low, in-person meetings resume, moratorium on evictions extended

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

Throughout the week, Albany County Executive Daniel McCoy has not reported more than four new cases of COVID-19 in any single day. And on Tuesday, for the first time in 10 months, he reported zero new cases. On Wednesday, McCoy announced that the county had marked another milestone with 60 percent of its 307,117 residents fully vaccinated.

After absentee-ballot count, Napierski and Beedle still victors

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

Absentee ballots for the four candidates, according to the Albany County Board of Elections, were counted on Tuesday and came in the same order as the original vote.

‘A bittersweet moment’ as the Class of 2021 accelerates into the future

by Sean Mulkerrin

“So I’m here telling you to get out there and live,” Graduate Madilyn Delisle told Voorheesville’s remaining students. “Because our time was cut short, and now that time has come to an end.”

Logan explores the symbiotic relationship between people and trees

by Noah Zweifel

How do you help a tree to grow? To be healthier? To live longer? 

The answer lies in human history as it’s captured by Rensselaerville author and arborist William Logan in his 2019 book, “Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees,” which has just been awarded the John Burroughs Medal. 

Voorheesville Principal Richard Shea plans to lead by example

by Sean Mulkerrin

“The smaller setting really helps drive a different level of relationship-building and academics,” said Richard Shea, the new principal of Clayton A. Bouton High School, of the Voorheesville School District. 

BKW sends off class of 2021 in triumphant ceremony

by Noah Zweifel

Superintendent Timothy Mundell handed out just under 50 diplomas to Berne-Knox-Westerlo graduates at Tawasentha Park, in Guilderland, as part of ceremony that highlighted the conviction and resilience of a graduating class that, like the one before it, had many of its senior-year rituals thwarted by the coronavirus pandemic.

After ‘a school year like no other’ GHS grads to persevere as ‘the unprecedented class’

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

GUILDERLAND — A buoyant stream of graduates flowed out of the county’s convention center into bright sunlight Friday afternoon — the young women in robes of white, the young men in robes of red.

Another truck stuck under rail trail bridge

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

SLINGERLANDS — On Friday morning, following two similar incidents in May, a truck traveling west on New Scotland Road got stuck under the rail-trail bridge.

Motorcyclist dies from crash

GUILDERLAND — A motorcyclist was killed on Friday morning after being hit by a car on Western Avenue.

Man on parole for burglary charged again

GUILDERLAND —Very early Friday morning, at about 2:22 a.m., Guilderland Police responded to a burglar alarm at the CVS pharmacy at 2040 Western Ave.

Stewart’s Shops appeals decision in Voorheesville lawsuit

by Sean Mulkerrin

Stewart’s Shops’ appeal of the November 2020 decision that favored the village of Voorheesville, filed in mid-January, will soon be tossed unless the company files its brief with the court.

Berne taking steps to improve safety along state routes 85 and 443

by Noah Zweifel

Berne Town Board members Joel Willsey and Bonnie Conklin solicited advice last week from the New York State Department of Transportation on steps to take to address dangerous guardrails, narrow shoulders, and fast drivers along state routes 85 and 443.

Timothy Lippert

Lippert leads Clayton, 2 to 1

by Noah Zweifel

Timothy Lippert, who was endorsed by the Berne Democratic Committee, got 66 percent of the votes over Anita Clayton, a Democrat endorsed by the Conservative Party, in the Democratic primary race for a vacant town council seat, according to unofficial election results. 

Republicans sweep Conservative line for fall

by Sean Mulkerrin

Come November’s general election in New Scotland, Republican Erik Grissell’s name will appear on the Conservative line for supervisor after beating current Democratic Supervisor Douglas LaGrange in the party’s primary on Tuesday. In the Conservative primary for town board, Republicans Charissa Mayer and Peter Drao topped their Democratic opponents, Adam Greenberg and Dan Leinung.

72 apartments proposed for New Scotland Road

by Sean Mulkerrin

During the June 22 meeting, New Scotland Zoning Board Chairman Jeffrey Baker’s first observation of the 72-unit apartment proposal for 2080 New Scotland Road was that it was a “bit of a problematic application.”

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