The level of the virus RNA “can tell us roughly how many cases can be expected in a population,” says the most recent report on Albany County’s wastewater surveillance. For Albany’s North Plant, the detection level suggests a daily case incidence of 10 to 50 cases per 100,000 people. The same is true for the Bethlehem plant. Albany’s South Plant and Guilderland’s facility each had a detection level suggesting more than 50 cases per 100,000 people, the report says.
A sign posted along Western Avenue in Guilderland by a volunteer group known as New York Citizens Audit claims that more votes were cast in New York than there are voters. It’s blatantly false.
During a recent New Scotland Town Board meeting, resident Jacob Kruzansky asked board members “to implement some kind of green initiative in the town so that we can do our part, we can help reduce the hassle for our neighbors, and you know, we can also contribute to the wellness of the environment as a whole.”
Helderberg Lake Association President Tom McQuade told The Enterprise this week that there have been discussions about using the herbicide ProcellaCOR — which was recently at the center of a legal battle between Lake George residents and the Adirondack Park Agency — to control weeds in Helderberg Lake, but that repairing the high-hazard dam is still the association’s only priority.
At the July meeting of the Albany County Legislature, members awarded projects for the Normanskill Bridge as well as multiple bridges over Onesquethaw Creek in New Scotland.
Matthew S. Doyle, 40, of Saugerties, was arrested on Aug. 9 and charged with third-degree burglary in connection with a theft that had occurred at a Westerlo home last November.
New Scotland Supervisor LaGrange told The Enterprise that he’d received a letter on Civil Service Employees Association letterhead stating employees in five departments were seeking to be represented by the public-sector union.
The project will be funded with $40 million from the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and American Rescue Plan and $60 million from the state through its latest round of the Upstate Airport Economic Development and Revitalization Competition.
“I love to see the kids when their eyes get big as saucers, when they see animals they haven’t seen before,” said Altamont Fair spokeswoman Pat Canaday. “It’s a look of wonderment.” She went on, “We keep getting further away from touching our own food … It’s easy to be divorced from realities.”
The United States Post Office is in the process of creating new sorting and delivery centers, where mail will be collected from local post offices for processing. However, a memorandum of understanding with the postal workers’ union says this form of consolidation will not lead to the closure of offices, nor a reduction in workers or services.
Ahead of a presentation on the Inflation Reduction Act in the town of Knox on Aug. 8, League of Conservation Voters Communications Director Devin Callahan spoke with The Enterprise about the group’s efforts to spread awareness of the green-energy incentives currently offered to people, businesses, and municipalities.
New York state provides services for survivors of crime and their families.
Funded by the state Office of Victim Services, a new campaign highlights the support available at no cost from victim assistance programs, and access to financial help for expenses resulting from a crime.
BETHLEHEM — A 19-year-old Albany man, Da-Ivion N. Hale, was charged on Monday with felonies for having a loaded gun after he fled from police trying to make a traffic stop, according to a release from Bethlehem Police.
NEW SCOTLAND — Skylin Baestlein knows the value of home. She is building one with her fiancé and their year-old son while at the same time she works to help people without homes.
Caring about others and developing a sense of community is a through line in her life.
