Health Care and Fitness
Watervliet’s Hometown Healthcare pharmacy has been sold to the insurer, CDPHP, but the sons of the owners are continuing their separate, medical equipment business, the Albany Business Journal is reporting. While CDPHP pushes into retail pharmacies, the sons are focusing on remote monitoring equipment, sleep apnea devices and similar products, hoping to keep the price of care lower, helping people avoid readmittance to the hospital, the story says.
Arts and Culture
Mountain Lake PBS will air the locally-produced documentary of supreme court justice, Charles Evans Hughes, a Glens Falls native, the Post-Star reports. Maury Thompson, the longtime Post-Start staffer now retired, produced the film, “My Native Air: Charles Evans Hughes and the Adirondacks,” over the last two years. He worked with Caitlin Stedman of Snarky Aardvark Films, and they had planned to premier it at the Wood Theatre in downtown Glens Falls, but the pandemic thwarted that, the story says. [Sidebar of particular interest to journalists in America: Hughes handed down the decision in Near v. Minnesota, which was one of a handful of decisions in the early 20th Century to establish that government censorship of the press is a no-no.]
Government, Law and Legal Services
The longest-serving mayor in the United States was lauded yesterday during the board meeting that he presided over on the 50th anniversary to-the-day. Robert Blais of Lake George Village was peppered with goodwill as his family up and down the eastern seaboard watched via Zoom, the Post-Star is reporting. A proclamation calling April 5, Robert Blais Day, now and forward, was read.
Commercial Real Estate
Riverview Center in Menands is going on the auction block after its owner defaulted on a $34 million loan, the Times-Union is reporting. The building is the iconic Art Deco former home to Woolworth's department store. At one million square feet, it’s about two-thirds the size of Crossgates Mall, the story says.