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RIC Energy is proposing to build a 4.4. megawatt solar farm on Thompsons Lake Road in Knox, but faces pushback from residents who live nearby and fear the potential impact of the project, despite the company’s assurances and modifications.

Knox residents are invited to the town hall on Monday, June 5, at 7 p.m. to discuss their problems with broadband and to optionally fill out a New York State survey that will help legislators guide funding. 

Berne resident and planning board member Mike Vincent recently asked local government officials about their efforts to secure any funding they need to make senior housing a reality in the rural Hilltown community, after a previous plan — which could still come together — failed to find a viable water source. 

On May 9, town attorney James Melita offered his opinion to the committee.

In New York, according to a DEC release, thousands of turtles are killed each year by unsuspecting drivers when turtles cross roads to find nesting areas. 

The emergency order that County Executive Daniel McCoy issued on Tuesday afternoon keeps in place county programs for “previously designated migrant families” but prohibits “foreign municipal programs that burden the County.”

Jake Crawford, a Guilderland Town Board member who chairs Albany County’s Democratic committee, said of the county executive, Daniel McCoy, “I said I wanted the first one in Guilderland and he delivered.”

RIC Energy is proposing to build a 4.4. megawatt solar farm on Thompsons Lake Road in Knox, but faces pushback from residents who live nearby and fear the potential impact of the project, despite the company’s assurances and modifications.

GUILDERLAND — A helicopter flew overhead and police cars and ambulances were parked in lots outside of Guilderland’s Crossgates Mall on Friday afternoon.

The resources were deployed after a fake emergency call of a shooting in a mall parking lot was made to Guilderland Police at about 12:34 p.m.

The only appointment that engendered discussion was the new attorney, Janet Thayer, and the controversy centered not on her person nor her professionalism but rather on the process used to select her.

The Parlor will be celebrating the release of their album, “You Are Love and I Am You,” at Indian Ladder Farms on Saturday, May 21, from 12 p.m. until 5 p.m. The event will also be the soft opening of Indian Ladder Farms’ new beer garden.

Voters also re-elected school board members Nathan Elble and Kimberly Lovell, who ran unopposed, and authorized a roughly $644,000 school bus purchase.

After the results were in, Superintendent Marie Wiles told The Enterprise, “I am delighted — in particular for Farnsworth Middle School and their enormous class sizes.”

With 593 ballots cast in the Voorheesville School District budget vote on Tuesday, residents approved next year’s $30.1 million spending plan 76 percent to 24 percent.

Transportation of New Scotland’s senior citizens has been at half capacity for the past three years after it was determined repairing one of the town’s two senior buses would be too expensive.

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