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BETHLEHEM — Weapons, including materials to make bombs, police say, were found in a car that officers inspected before it was to be towed.

“It’s a small grant,” Assemblywoman Patricia Fahy said of the $40,000 that went to the Wyman Osterhout Community Center in New Scotland, “but it carries a serious weight, and makes a serious difference.”

ALTAMONT — Carolyn Sanford Du Brin was a woman with a deep sense of place who cared about history. She loved animals, both as pets and in nature. Her vibrant paintings and words captured her life in all its vivid details. She remained resilient in old age and never lost her joie de vivre.

The $2.5 million 2023 prliminary budget is about half-a-million dollars less than this year’s $3 million budget, but maintains the steep tax cuts that had been introduced this year.

Evusheld is the the only monoclonal antibody available, under emergency use authorization, for COVID-19 prevention for people who are immunocompromised or for people who can’t take the COVID-19 vaccine.

Helderberg Rescue Squad is hoping to establish a scholarship at the State University of New York College of Agriculture and Technology at Cobleskill to attract recruits from the school’s emergency medical technicians program to make up for a lack of local volunteers. 

For 2023, the town is proposing a tax rate of $1.50 per $1,000 of assessed value for all New Scotland property owners — including those who live in the village of Voorheesville — the same as this year. 

Albany County Executive Dan McCoy’s proposed budget is under the state-set levy limit for the 10th year in a row.

Alan has been involved either driving school buses for Berne-Knox-Westerlo or supervising the transportation department. He has also served Berne as supervisor and as a town justice. Millie taught elementary school children for 35 years, along with coaching cross-country and track, and then went on to earn certification as an emergency medical technician to help with the Helderberg Ambulance squad.

Knox’s tentative 2o23 budget features tax increases in the town’s two fire districts, while the townwide levy stays the same.

 The 1.875 megawatt solar facility is located at 347 New Scotland South Road.

“A comprehensive plan is more than just a document — it is a process of organizing the future of a community while protecting its meaningful and unique attributes,” wrote Michael D. Panichelli, the president of MJ Engineering and Land Surveying, the company hired to guide Guilderland’s comprehensive planning process.

Electric bills from National Grid obtained by The Enterprise show that the town of Berne frequently underpaid for its services — while some months not paying at all — and accumulated late fees and disconnection notices throughout 2021 and up to the present.

New Scotland PV, LLC is seeking a use variance and two area variances for the installation of a 5 megawatt ground-mounted solar photovoltaic farm at what is being called 0 (zero) New Scotland Road.

A committee that has been set up to review easement requests will also walk the property, Supervisor Peter Barber said, and report to the town board, which will decide whether to grant the tax break.

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