Michael Dickershaid had been previously incarcerated for the attempted rape of a 15-year-old in the town of Westerlo, and was on parole at the time of this latest incident.

Drew Joslin, a Life Scout and junior firefighter from Westerlo, renovated a trail loop at Veterans Memorial Park in the town by clearing paths, installing benches, and adding a supply of crisis-intervention information for visitors. 

The 12 students beat out seven other teams in the New York State High School Clay Target League’s spring season conference. 

Grateful Dead tribute band Bearly Dead are headlining the two-day High Altitude Festival in Guilderland, which takes place Sept. 29 and 30. 

Albany County was one of 31 counties in the state to be named a primary natural disaster area by the United States Department of Agriculture. This designation allows farmers to apply for emergency loans to recover their operations after a natural disaster.

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.

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. 

Rensselaerville Water and Sewer Advisory Committee Ed Csukas spoke with The Enterprise this week about the committee’s efforts to update the town’s aging water system, which on a number of occasions has failed to keep the water quality within increasingly stringent federal limits. 

To commemorate a “legendary champion of theater and integrative teaching methods,” the Heldeberg Workshop is naming their its built theater building after Richard K. Weeks, a teacher who, among other things, wrote a play about the Anti-Rent Wars around the time of the United States Bicentennial.