ALBANY COUNTY — Eight organizations in Albany County have received awards for supportive housing as part of the governor’s $2.6 billion five-year plan to develop 6,000 supportive housing units for homeless people with special needs or conditions.

John Zacharek has joined the State University of New York college of Agriculture and Technology at Cobleskill as its new vice president for development.

Brittany Schaub, Daniel Theobald, and Kevin Swartz have joined Barton & Loguidice, an engineering, planning, environmental, and landscape architecture firm with nine offices across New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland announces the addition of three employees to its Albany office.

Through a glass darkly — we need to see Native Americans for who they are, not through our own distorting lens.

SEPTEMBER 12 IS REGISTRATION DAY

Polluters should pay for recycling, not taxpayers

The Guilderland, Berne-Knox-Westerlo, Voorheesville, and Bethlehem school districts have released the income criteria for students to qualify for free or reduced-price lunches. All four districts have the same standard, based on family size and income.

Germany’s Circular Economy Act mandates “the polluter-pays principle, the five-tier waste hierarchy, and the principle of shared public and private responsibility for waste management.”