“We have felt some effects from the new administration down in Washington,” Albany County development chief Kevin O’Connor said during a March 4 meeting of the county’s IDA. 

The district in an email to parents said it “could not secure an affordable community-based provider during the required bidding process.”

The district’s proposed $34.5 million spending plan includes a 6.05 percent increase in the tax levy, nearly the maximum allowed by the state, 6.4 percent. 

At the end January, Albany County Executive Daniel McCoy issued an executive order halting for 90 days the agricultural use of biosolids within county limits.

“I wanted to show kids that cutting a tree down is not all bad,” said Justin Perry. “You can get something out of a forest without destroying the forest.”

The Elliott House Thrift Shop on Route 81 in Norton Hill will be open for the 2025 season beginning Wednesday, March 12, weather permitting.

Volunteers run this shop and all proceeds benefit the programs of the Asbury United Methodist Church.

In 2022, Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law a bill allowing local taxing jurisdictions to offer a property tax break to volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance workers.

The plan builds on New Scotland’s 2018 comprehensive plan and last year’s cataloging of natural resources to set “forth a framework of policies, programs, and recommendations that promote conservation, climate resiliency, responsible land use planning.”

Timothy J. Albright, Meadowdale

“I’d like to tell the board that this has not been a very easy budget to develop,” Voorheesville’s interim business official, Lissa Jilek, told school board members this month.