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State Senator Michelle Hinchey is hosting mobile office hours across the 46th Senate District during September, including these local ones:

Next Tuesday, Sept. 14, Guilderland residents are invited to a 6:30 p.m. in-person meeting at Town Hall to learn about a nascent Neighborhood Watch Program.

“We have the tools to combat the virus, if we can come together as a country and use those tools,” said President Joe Biden in his Thursday night speech. “If we raise our vaccination rate, protect ourselves and others with masking, expanding testing and identify people who are infected, we can and we will turn the tide on COVID-19.”

ALBANY COUNTY — On Thursday, the New York State Public Service Commission approved Voorheesville’s request to buy 313 streetlights in the village from National Grid for $1

The Helderberg Lake Community Association’s current petition to the town requests that the town front the cost of dam repairs — up to $500,000 — which would then be paid back by lake residents and those with lake access through the creation of a special tax district.

How does a municipality located entirely inside of another municipality that saw a 4.4-percent population increase between 2010 and 2010 lose residents?

Although the HERO Act was signed into law last May and went into effect in June, Governor Kathy Hochul said, “It never had any teeth …. It wasn’t operational.” She said that many workplaces did not take it seriously.

Governor Kathy Hochul

Governor Kathy Hochul, on Monday, Sept. 6, said that the state’s health commissioner, Howard Zucker, has designated COVID-19 a highly contagious communicable disease that presents a serious risk of harm to the public health under the HERO Act, requiring all employers to implement workplace safety plans.

WESTERLO — Two men who knew each other were arrested in Westerlo on Sept. 3 following a confrontation that involved gunfire and property damage, according to a press release from the Albany County Sheriff’s Office. 

Matthew Pinchinat was recently named as the director for diversity, equity, and inclusion — a new post for the Guilderland school district. 
Diversity, explains Pinchinat in this week’s podcast at AltamontEnterprise.com/podcasts, means recognizing people not from our background, and includes differences in thought as well.

Republican candidate for Knox Supervisor, Kregg Grippo, has a history of professional and personal financial mismanagement, as revealed through a series of court records and municipal documents. After The Enterprise attempted several times to contact Grippo for more information, he filed a harassment complaint against the Hilltown reporter responsible for the story.

Albany County Health Commissioner Elizabeth Whalen spoke at a press conference Friday.

The precipitous rise in COVID-19 cases, Whalen said, includes a rise in “breakthrough infections” — that is, vaccinated people getting sick with the virus. In April, breakthrough cases were very low, she said. Whalen cited rough data, which shows, of the 1,870 COVID-19 cases in Albany County between Aug. 1 and 31, eight-hundred-and-twenty-six of them were of vaccinated people. “That is a very high rate of breakthrough ...,” said Whalen. “This is a concern.”

The moratorium on evictions is in effect until Jan. 15. The new law keeps in place all protections of the Tenant Safe Harbor Act for residential tenants who are suffering financial hardship as a result of the pandemic; it also adds protections on commercial evictions.

The City of Albany Water Department will issue 100 licenses to hunters who live in Westerlo or Coeymans, or who are employees for the city of Albany, in an effort to cut down on the reservoir’s deer population. 

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