Elaine Person has an alter ego — Val N Tine. Val wears a suit of rainbow stripes with patch pockets in the shape of hearts. She has a permanent smile painted in red, curly pink hair, and a heart for a nose. She is a clown — a clown with a serious mission: making others happy.
“It’s almost a miracle,” said Pat Canaday, describing the humble origins of human clothing made from animal skins. “Then people learned they could criss-cross threads.”
Running from Tuesday, Aug. 13, to Sunday, Aug. 18, this year’s Altamont Fair will build on its agricultural foundation to include a comedian magician, races featuring the most-regal of sausaged-shaped dogs, and local grapplers engaged in a squared-circle showdown just off the midway.
In multiple tax certiorari cases filed this month, eight owners of over 60 properties are asking the Albany County Supreme Court to lower their collective assessment from $43.7 million to $14.2 million.
In building the solar facility, care was taken not to disturb the land, Carlene Pruitt said. “We have to be very conscious and mindful when it comes to the production or development of projects like this,” she said. “We can’t drill, you know, like pilings into the dirt. So what we do is we use a ballast system — they look kind of like cinder blocks — to hold the racking and the panels on top of the soil so there’s no penetration of the soil whatsoever.”
