Albany County is alleging that the town of Knox used $18,000 worth of road salt without permission and is demanding compensation. Knox Supervisor Russ Pokorny told The Enterprise the town will likely challenge the valuation.
After former Berne Supervisor Kevin Crosier showed up at the house of a woman who’s applying for one of the town’s two open town board seats, Supervisor Dennis Palow expressed concern to The Enterprise about how Crosier got that information.
The board met for the first time in nearly a year to catch up on all the things it missed while waiting for Governor Kathy Hochul to fill a critical vacancy, as well as to handle some new business.
According to the Rural Housing Coalition of New York, rural areas of the state are getting disproportionately less affordable-housing tax credits for the development of larger low-income housing facilities.
The town of Rensselaerville is considering updating its fee schedule for the transfer station after the city of Albany drastically increased tipping fees for Albany’s Rapp Road landfill, where Rensselaerville sends its waste. The hearing is scheduled for March 27 at 6:45 p.m. at the town hall.
The highway superintendent of the town of Charleston, in Montgomery County, claims that Berne Highway Superintendent Randy Bashwinger told him his friend would challenge him for that position unless he was hired as an employee. Bashwinger denies this.
