“It’s become a thing much more quickly,” Voorheesville Mayor Rich Straut said of e-bikes during the September village board of trustees meeting. “We see young people riding in the streets. We see them riding around the park. They’re very fast … We’ve had a couple of complaints about them.”
On Oct. 7, the New Scotland Planning Board will hear comments on RIC Energy’s request to place an approximately 11,300-square-foot, five-megawatt storage system on seven secluded acres of the 137-acre New Scotland Beagle Club.
“As everybody is quite aware over the last few years,” Supervisor Douglas LaGrange said during the town board’s Sept. 10 meeting, the 40-year-old Swift Road Water District system has “had a tremendous amount of leaks.”
The 2025-26 school year started with board members being apprised of the implementation of the state’s mandated cell-phone ban policy, the district’s multi-million-dollar capital project, and the award of two grants.
RIC Energy is seeking permission to install a five-megawatt battery energy storage system, or BESS, on seven acres of the 137-acre New Scotland Beagle Club.
New Leaf Energy’s applications identify the properties as 37 and 128 Wormer Road — each parcel is about 13 acres — owned by New Scotland Councilman Adam Greenberg.
On Monday at about 4:30 p.m., Albany County Sheriff’s deputies responded to an incident between a hatchback and CSX train at the Main Street railroad crossing in Voorheesville.
