Bethlehem

The Bethlehem Central School District’s $116.6 million budget for the 2025-26 school year passed by a 76-percent margin. It will raise taxes 1.1 percent.

The Bethlehem Public Library’s $5.2 million budget was passed by voters, who will see their library taxes go up 2.61 percent. Meanwhile, trustee Laura DiBetta was re-elected for a five-year term and newcomer Jill Adams won a seat as well. 

A 5-megawatt solar facility at 354 South Albany Road in Selkirk has been largely constructed after getting town approval three years ago, but the developers ran up on their deadline for the special-use permit and needed approvals for some unanticipated changes to the project. 

BETHLEHEM — Sections of the Quality Inn in Glenmont were evacuated on Tuesday, May 13, police say, because of threatening calls while police negotiated for several hours with the man staying at the inn who was making the calls.

BETHLEHEM — To help the Bethlehem Public Library navigate the outcome of the overwhelming defeat of its $37 million proposed capital project last winter, four candidates are vying for two seats of the library’s board of trustees. 

The seats come with a five-year term on the seven-member board. 

A Delmar woman was charged with manslaughter on May 9 after, State Police say, she was driving drunk, causing a fatal wrong-way crash.

The Bethlehem Public Library’s $5.2 million proposed budget for 2025-26 would raise taxes by 2.61 percent for a total of roughly $120,000. 

BETHLEHEM — A routine traffic stop on April 17 led to an arrest for a controlled substance, khat — a drug rarely seen locally.

Amar H. Mehsin, 19, of Albany, was stopped on Route 9W near Bender Lane by Bethlehem Police at midnight, for a traffic violation, according to a release from Bethlehem Police.

The adopted $116.6 million budget for Bethlehem Central School District’s 2025-26 school year would, if passed by voters on May 20, impose a 1.12-percent property tax increase.