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. 

The clinic also added a Medicare guide, who will help senior patients figure out decisions relating to insurance, prescriptions, transportation, and more. 

Rather than tackle an overhaul of the current, two-tiered transfer station, the town of Knox is going to pour concrete and build a pavilion that will house three compactors and an office. 

A draft of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Solid Waste Management Plan lays out a vision of a reduced-waste society, which will be implemented through legislative and agency policy. Waste accounts for 12 percent of the state’s greenhouse-gas emissions, the plan says. 

Ahead of an acoustic show at the Albany Elks Lodge later this month, Voorheesville music teacher and musician Brian Kaplan spoke with The Enterprise about how marketing in the music industry has changed since he started his self-named band 20 years ago, and how his students help him navigate the social-media landscape in his middle-age. 

With a permanent solution to the town’s transfer station problem still in the works, the Knox Town Board will hold at least one more special meeting, on Wednesday, July 26, to discuss its options. 

The Rensselaerville Town Board seems to agree that opting to allow marijuana dispensaries in the town will have virtually no impact, given the state’s regulations at this time, and will seek the public’s opinion on the matter in the near future. Meanwhile, it’s leaving the issue of a noisy gun club to the residents affected. 

The Berne Democratic Party is not endorsing any candidates this year, believing that, with only two town board seats up for grabs, they wouldn’t be able to make any meaningful change even if they swept the election. 

It’s the final word on a 4.4-megawatt solar proposal from RIC Energy that technically originated in 2020, and has been a source of community consternation ever since.