Amazon moving into Colonie
Precision Valve & Automation has a 10-year lease with Amazon to take over PVA’s Colonie Campus. From there, the retail giant will run a distribution center with a daily run of 28 tractor trailer loads and 306 van loads in three shifts, a story in the Albany Business Journal says. Precision Valve, designer and manufacturer of robotic equipment, is moving corporate offices to Halfmoon. The construction facilities are already there, the story says.
Small boat tours on Lake George
Lake George is home to 56 tour boat operators, and the numbers have been rising in recent years as small vessels have entered the market, the Chronicle reported yesterday. Dave Wick, executive director of the Lake George Park Commission, says in the story that he would rather see the tour boats grow in number than individual rentals since tour boat captains require boating licenses but renters do not. The smaller vessels bring tourists to islands or take them tubing. [Read our related coverage here, and here.]
LG Schools Superintendent taking Schenectady job
Lake George Schools Superintendent Lynne Rutnik will take a role as deputy superintendent of the Schenectady City School District, leaving her current post in October, the Post-Star is reporting. She was named the town's superintendent in 2017. While in that position, she adopted a strategic plan with goals of “raising academic achievement in reading and math, cultivating student leadership and engaging in partnerships with the community,” the story says.
Marijuana facility tabled
The proposal before the Town of Moreau Planning Board to put a marijuana farm and processing plant on Route 9, a few miles south of South Glens Falls, gave board members pause, the Post-Star is reporting. The board members worried about allowing such an agricultural facility, a large building housing both growing and processing, in a commercial corridor and said maybe it should be moved to an industrial area. They tabled the proposal.
Brothers accused of manslaughter
The brothers Jordan Garafalo and James Garafalo who were arrested over the weekend for beating a man in Saratoga Springs, police said, have been charged with manslaughter after the man died, the Times Union is reporting. Mark French was hit in the head by the brothers, according to police reports, and then his head hit the pavement when he fell. French died of the injuries on Sunday. A lawyer for one brother said they, too, were beaten as they were pulled from the Caroline Street bar and that the altercation went both ways. Both men are held in Saratoga County jail.