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Guilderland’s June 17 resolution and Altamont’s bond approval share the same purpose: They are procedural moves that allow the village to seek grant opportunities for the interconnect.

Supervisor Peter Barber said the delay is because the Public Employee Relations Board “has possession of the cards and, if a majority of the cards are determined by PERB to be valid, then I will ask the board to voluntarily recognize CSEA.”

“We have to be willing to listen, willing to look hard at ourselves, and willing to continue to try to get better as we go along,” said Superintendent Marie Wiles.

Warm weather will arrive early next week, the Weather Service says, forecasting a heat index for Albany of 98 degrees Fahrenheit on Sunday, 108 degrees on Monday, and 106 degrees on Tuesday.

While the proposal faces other questions, the ruling allows the approval process to proceed. 

Rensselaerville Supervisor John Dolce has been looking into the viability of creating a new park dedicated to Jeffrey Bogue — who left the town $830,000 when he died — at the site of the town’s former landfill, a 53-acre property. 

ALBANY COUNTY — The Affordable Housing Partnership of the Capital Region is working with Albany County to set up a First-Time Homebuyer Navigator Program. 

This initiative will create a new “navigator” position at the Affordable Housing Partnership with the goal of removing common barriers faced by first-time homebuyers.

The event will be held at Two Rock Ranch in Berne on June 21 from 3  until 7 p.m., featuring music, food, and an appearance from New York State Ag Commissioner Richard Ball. 

Happy Days Dispensary in Farmingdale, Nassau County, is seeking permission to open a dispensary at 1656 Western Ave. 

NEW SCOTLAND — The New Scotland Historical Association dedicated two markers this week — each one a first.

On Friday, June 13, New Scotland got its only historic marker honoring a woman, Winifred Goldring. She was the first female state paleontologist in the nation and in the world.

As 7,000 soldiers and tanks and Strykers, at a cost of millions of dollars, paraded 1,600 yards down Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C. to Donald Trump’s reviewing stand on his birthday, June 14, a score of Guilderland citizens brandished handmade signs at the corner of routes 20 and 155 as passing drivers honked horns in solidarity.

A new state policy mandates that each school district adopt its own policy concerning students’ use of personal electronic devices by Aug. 1. 

Members of the Knox Conservative Party can cast their ballots on Primary Day — June 24 — or during the early-voting period from June 14 through June 22. 

The suit, filed by Moses Ahn of Morgan & Morgan of New York City — which touts itself as “America's Largest Injury Firm” — alleges that Wright was hit by a school bus at the entrance of 113 Krumkill Rd. as he was “riding an e-scooter motor vehicle.”

Charles Peck’s medal was awarded because he served on Merchant Marine ships during World War II.

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