Storm troubles linger, Warren County offers aid
The Post-Star is running a story that says many people in the region without power after the late-season snow storm on Monday are still without power and turned to Warren County and the National Grid power company for help on Tuesday. The two groups gave away dry ice and bottled water to help those affected. One Chestertown resident was trying to get to the distribution location but had trees blocking the driveway and about 14 inches of snow after the storm, the story says.
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Capital Region Apartment boom
The Capital Region is seeing a boom in proposed apartment projects, the Albany Business Journal is reporting. According to one banking executive in the story, the need for more housing is still much greater than what is available but material shortages, interest rate hikes and inflation make bankers question the viability of new projects.
Garage to bar
Homebrewer Randy Lewis and a few friends are have turned his 30 years of homebrewing into a garage-based brewing company, and they will open a taproom in town. The four friends have created a variety of IPAs, ales and porters, and will soft launch The Other One Brewing Company on Friday at a storefront taproom in Halfmoon, the Times Union is reporting. The beer that has taste-tested best with friends is Sajulus, a citrusy brew, the story says. Bring your own food, or order from a nearby restaurant, the owners say since they will not have their own to sell patrons.
First New York pot harvest coming not-so-soon
A Columbia County hemp farm tells the Times Union that its first batch of now-legal marijuana that they can grow for recreational use will be ready next winter. Hemp, the story says, is marijuana with a low amount of the psycho-active chemical THC, and has been legal to grow. Fifty-two hemp farmers in the state were given licenses last week to switch one acre of their farms to full-THC marijuana. New Jersey took a different tack and is letting farmers who grew medicinal marijuana to start growing and selling recreationally, meaning they have a crop ready to go now, the story says.
Paul Smith’s College’s presidents resigns
Paul Smith’s College’s president Scott Dalrymple resigned this week after his pandemic-related remote work arrangement no longer worked as the college’s board expected, a story in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise says. The college’s board of trustees said that they overestimated the amount of time they believed Dalrymple would spend on campus and underestimated the amount of time he needed to spend on campus when they made the arrangement for him to live in Cooperstown and commute to the Adirondacks. PSC Provost Nicholas Hunt-Bull has been named interim president, the story says.