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. 

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.