Switzkill Farm’s dark skies and vast landscape make it a promising spot to build an observatory, although the group Helderberg Earth and Sky Observatory is waiting to obtain not-for-profit status before building in the Hilltowns.

As Berne-Knox-Westerlo leaders set out school goals, their superintendent suggested a “hedgehog concept,” which would focus on a unifying strength.

Two new arrays will be part of a community solar project to be built in Westerlo.

Just back from federal court in Ohio for a lawsuit against the drug industry, Albany County Executive Daniel McCoy hopes to return for a settlement in a matter of months.

The school has provided “flu kits,” which include thermometers, hand sanitizer, tissues, and information about the flu.

This spring, the current owner of Rosa Villa Pizza in Duanesburg hopes to reopen the Foxenkill Tavern in Knox as a restaurant and tavern with live music.

Complaints have been made about the way the Knox supervisor runs the town, but Vasilios Lefkaditis says that he is simply “results oriented.”

Knox’s newly adopted town seal features a tin horn and Native American mask, a pill box, and a farmer.

The county executive touched on local issues in his speech, but used national issues such as the #MeToo movement and the opioid epidemic as a springboard into announcing new county initiatives.

The county executive said Friday that the county will be joining hundreds of other plaintiffs to testify against the pharmaceutical industry this coming week.