A Tree Preservation Committee will be formed to come up with guidelines on appropriate plants for the town’s parks and rights-of-way along roads, which may also be used as a guide by residents.
Joshua and Stefanie Rockwood, who took over Gordon Farms from former Knox resident Alexander “Sandy” Gordon, are nowhere to be found as Gordon attempts to collect more than $130,000 from the couple through a lawsuit.
The bill, signed by the governor late last month, requires that all funds received by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority from renewable-energy facilities built on farmland will be put into a farmland protection fund.
The re-evaluation came about after Herbie’s Burgers on Western Avenue, unaware of the prohibition against painted signs, put up a painted sign and then refused to paint over it.
Mohawk Hudson Humane Society said last month that it would not renew contracts with local towns like Westerlo because of the increase in stray intakes this year from certain city clients, who will still be offered service.
A report released on Tuesday by AARP New York found that a lack of affordable and accessible housing in rural areas compounded with a lack of public transportation make it hard for old New Yorkers living in the country to age in place. The housing problem has been made dramatically worse by the pandemic, the study found.
The Holiday Hunt is a week-long extension of the regular deer season over the winter holidays that was implemented by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation last year, frustrating snowmobilers who have to shorten their recreational season as a result. The state legislature has passed a bill allowing counties to opt out of the additional hunting week.
The Oct. 16 lawsuit filed by Donna Casey claims that on Aug. 29, 2021, Casey was cycling on Fuller Road under the CSX overpass, near the Albany city line, when she was injured.
Governor Kathy Hochul said she is keeping in place her Executive Order 4, declaring a statewide disaster emergency due to healthcare staffing shortages, to allow medical professionals from other states to work in New York, and to allow “more professionals to administer vaccinations and tests,” Hochul said.
The first proposition, $25.2 million in construction projects, passed with about 68-percent approval, while the second proposition, a $2 million energy-performance contract, passed with about 81-percent approval.
The state’s workforce rebounded in the second half of the last decade before dropping significantly with the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report released this week by the state’s comptroller, Thomas DiNapoli.
