Knox Supervisor Russell Pokorny made a motion this week to hire as transfer station supervisor Richard Dexter, who had been illegally fired from his job at the town’s transfer station in 2019.
Albany Med has been awarded a five-year, $2.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study how carbon dioxide and metabolism impact chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder.
New Yorkers must wear masks on buses and in bus stations, on trains and in train stations, on subways and in subway stations, and in airports. They also must mask at homeless and domestic-violence shelters, correctional facilities, and state-regulated health-care and adult-care facilities and nursing homes.
ALBANY COUNTY — Jessica Serfilippi started her groundbreaking and myth-busting research on Alexander Hamilton the way she thinks any historian should — with an open mind, she says.
“The bigger ecological story here is the fact that the beetles can damage the pine stands — that is more a symptom of an ecosystem’s health,” says Neil Gifford, the conservation director for the Albany Pine Bush Preserve.
Robert C. Lawrence and his wife, Carol Ann, were kayaking on an Adirondack lake, watching some loons, when she asked him how the mountain looming over them, Blue Mountain, got its name.
Lawrence thought he’d buy a book on Adirondack place names at the Blue Mountain Museum to answer the question. But there was no such book.
The Mohawk Hudson Land Conservancy, Northeastern Cave Conservancy, and Huyck Preserve and Biological Research Station each received funds from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation as part of a $3.4 million statewide grant disbursement.
Bayard Elsbree Memorial Park, in Preston Hollow, is overseen by the Preston Hollow Park Committee, which came together in 1997, per the terms of the park’s deed. Rensselaerville’s town attorney, William Ryan, advised the town board last week that the committee may need to be formally designated by the town.
The 10-second video clip shows a huge mother bear, having climbed up the porch steps, lumbering across the porch with two adolescent cubs sauntering behind her.
On Saturday morning, Sheriff Craig Apple stood at a lectern in the county courthouse with eight people in a semicircle standing on either side of him, each with their hands folded in front of them, as the sheriff praised them for their work in quickly arresting a suspect in the Wednesday morning murder of Philip L. Rabadi.
On April 14, the state issued an order to ban all fowl auctions and other events for the purchase, sale, swap, or trade of fowl in New York State to help prevent the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza.
