“It’s almost a miracle,” said Pat Canaday, describing the humble origins of human clothing made from animal skins. “Then people learned they could criss-cross threads.”
Tom Galvin, who has spent his life and career at Berne-Knox-Westerlo, is being honored for his achievements as the girls’ basketball coach. Galvin is also the athletic director and dean of students.
In multiple tax certiorari cases filed this month, eight owners of over 60 properties are asking the Albany County Supreme Court to lower their collective assessment from $43.7 million to $14.2 million.
The Knox Planning Board, which has so far relied on fairly skeletal solar ordinances to guide its project determinations, will be holding a public hearing for a more robust, 15-page law at its next meeting on Aug. 8 at 7:30 p.m, at the town hall.
In building the solar facility, care was taken not to disturb the land, Carlene Pruitt said. “We have to be very conscious and mindful when it comes to the production or development of projects like this,” she said. “We can’t drill, you know, like pilings into the dirt. So what we do is we use a ballast system — they look kind of like cinder blocks — to hold the racking and the panels on top of the soil so there’s no penetration of the soil whatsoever.”
