Electric Supplier expanding in Clifton Park
Green Mountain Electric Supply wants to turn a Clifton Park warehouse into a wire cutting and assembly plant, the Albany Business Journal is reporting. The proposed $6.2 million purchase and renovation of the property includes an application to the Clifton Park Industrial Development Agency in which they ask for a number tax incentives. The 68-year-old company has been looking to expand in in Bennington and Brattleboro, Vermont, western Massachusetts and New York, the story says.
Gloversville’s plan for $1.5 million
Gloversville will take federal COVID relief funding and work on blighted areas of the city and help neighborhoods, the Daily Gazette is reporting. The Common Council agreed with Mayor Vince DeSantis to spend $1.5 million on the mayor’s six-project plan. DeSantis’ plan would tackle negative economic impacts of the pandemic and attack decaying properties, the story says. The plans include a homeless shelter and resale of derelict properties to owners who plan to renovate and improve the properties, the story says.
God and the vaxx
Four medical professionals filed suit arguing that the state needs a religious exemption to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate enforced by Gov. Kathy Hochul's administration, the Times Union is reporting. The plaintiffs, two doctors, a nurse and a scientist who work at Our Lady of Lourdes Memorial Hospital, said they believe their Catholic faith stops them from using the vaccine because the vaccine may have used aborted fetal stem cells in its development or production. Gov. Kathy Hochul’s response says that God was involved and the Pope is OK with it. "[God] made the smartest men and women, the scientists, the doctors, the researchers — he made them come up with a vaccine,” the story quotes her as saying. The mandate has been stopped in court, but there is a question of whether the state has followed the directive.
Adk Med Center holds six with COVID
Six people are hospitalized with COVID-19 at Adirondack Medical Center, the most people hospitalized at once in 19 months, the Adirondack Daily Enterprise is reporting. One person is on a ventilator, and the hospital has at least eight more available. Ventilator use has been rare at the hospital, the story says.