Business owner’s webinar will lift others
The owner of Tech Valley Shuttle and GB Logistics, Trent Griffin-Braaf wants to share what he's learned with up-and-coming women- and minority-owned businesses. He is running a webinar with the business lending company Pursuit, specifically aimed at MWBEs. It will cover business planning through networking, the Albany Business Journal says.
Excelsior College takes advantage of rules to change name
The New York State Board of Regents shifted rules and broadened the definition of “university,” and an online college based in Albany will change from Excelsior College to Excelsior University, this summer, the Albany Business Journal is reporting. It follows a number of colleges around the state that have made similar changes. According to the story, a “university” need not have a doctoral program in order to be called a university. From the regulations: “a higher educational institution offering a range of registered undergraduate and graduate curricula in the liberal arts and sciences, including graduate programs registered in at least three of the following discipline areas: agriculture, biological sciences, business, education, engineering, fine arts, health professions, humanities, physical sciences and social sciences.”
Workforce housing wins tax incentives
The Warren-Washington Industrial Development Agency on Monday approved tax incentives for the Sun Valley Apartments apartment project, a 39-unit complex in five buildings in Lake George Village that will be aimed at lower-income families and workforce housing, a story in the Post-Star says. There will be limits to subletting and the length of leases to keep the project from turning into a short-term-rental, the story says.
There is a burn ban for a reason, HFFD says
A campfire at a house in Hudson Falls spread to the garage, a story in the Post-Star says. This is despite the the statewide burn ban. The people making what would have been a perfectly fine campfire in the backyard under normal conditions, believed they had extinguished the fire, the story says, but an ember got loose and lit the place up. It burned the garage, two other sheds and a tree, the story says.
Gaffney’s closed by Saratoga Springs
Gaffney’s, the popular bar on Caroline Street in Saratoga Springs, was shut down for lack of the proper license, the Times Union is reporting. The checks used to pay for the licenses bounced, the story says, so the city shut the bar down. Gaffney's, which has felt singled out in stories about violence downtown before, told the paper the checks cleared in March. Gaffney’s is also coming before the State Liquor Authority for noise and other complaints, and after people the city says have been inside Gaffney’s take their violent fights to the streets.