After two students alerted Voorheesville school administrators on Monday to a threatening message they had found written on a bathroom mirror at the middle and high school campus, the Albany County Sheriff’s Office was called and bomb-sniffing dogs were brought in.
Depending on the source, some New Scotland water customers can pay as much as $26 per 1,000 gallons of water while others pay as little as $4.50. Recently, because their own service had to be shut down, the 127 customers in the Northeast Water District have been paying close to double what they normally pay for water.
Daniela Filmer, the mother of Zachary Barrantes, the 25-year-old mentally-ill man who survived an attempted suicide at Thacher Park on New Year’s Eve, said no single person or institution is at fault for what happened on Dec.31; there had been breakdowns at every turn that night.
After deciding to put off making a decision until after the holidays, the Altamont Zoning Board of Appeals will hold a public hearing on Feb. 11 for Stewart’s Shops variance requests for its proposed Altamont Boulevard project.
Before retiring, Albany County Comptroller Michael Conners released a report that could give both the county legislature and executive problems for longer than the two weeks Conners has left in office.
At her last meeting, Councilwoman Patricia Snyder voted against supporting the county’s clean-air bill because of what she termed a “vacuum” of information.
“The key is: We want to pay what we did or less, and increase the use of renewable energy,” said Supervisor Douglas LaGrange of enrolling New Scotland in a CCA.
After assuring residents that it would seek all options to help lower the costs of a proposed $3.6 million sewer system, the village of Voorheesville began to make good on that promise this week when the state announced that the village had received a $400,000 grant.
