The towns of Westerlo and Rensselaerville, and the village of Voorheesville, are all working to pull public grant money that will allow them to improve the safety and efficacy of their water districts.
Coeymans and Bethlehem were also named in suits filed by the Albany Water Board that claim that the water board’s properties in those towns are overvalued and should be tax-exempt.
The towns of Westerlo and Rensselaerville, and the village of Voorheesville, are all working to pull public grant money that will allow them to improve the safety and efficacy of their water districts.
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.
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.
