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The Albany County Soil and Water Conservation District will spend approximately two weeks analyzing the trees at Rensselaerville’s two town parks and issuing each tree a rating based on its condition and the impact it might have on structures and passersby. 

Amid possible changes to zoning laws, the town’s agricultural advisory committee is expected to deliver a report later this year to the Knox Planning Board on the topic of farmland abandonment — a mechanism by which farms that have been grandfathered into a non-agricultural district are stripped of that privilege five years after farming operations have ceased there. 

ALTAMONT — Karen Williams, Linda Zell, and Megan Connolly consider themselves to be sisters.

“The bond is that strong,” said Connolly in this week’s Enterprise podcast.

The three women are not related by blood. Rather, they are part of what they describe as a “church family.”

A woman charged with stealing from a 96-year-old Selkirk man she had been paid to care for has recently been sentenced to one-and-a-half to three years in prison, according to the Bethlehem Police Department.

ALBANY COUNTY — The week started with the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Rochelle Walensky, acknowledging that, after a review, the agency found it did not respond adequately to the COVID-19 pandemic.

James Coffin was elected to the Voorheesville School Board at least eight times, most recently in 2021. He won his first election in 1989.

“It was confusing, very frustrating, stressful, the unknown, fear of the unknown, because this was the first fall when our expectation was that everybody went back to school,”Governor Kathy Hochul said at Monday’s press conference, going over back-to-school COVID protocols. This year’s landscape is different, she said, adding, “We’re expecting it to be a much, much easier year for parents and for schools.”