Arts and Culture
Matt McCabe, owner of Saratoga Guitar and a former Saratoga Springs finance commissioner, has died. Saratoga Living writes of his company’s path from place to place in the Saratoga area and the friends he collected along the way. Musicians knew him well and turned to him when financial troubles hit. One friend said he probably gave away more guitars than he sold. He was 63 and died from complications from COVID.
Restaurants and Food Service
The Parting Glass, the iconic pub in Saratoga Springs, was saved from closure-by-pandemic with a last-minute $200,000 donation from the Barstool Fund, WNYT reported. The pub and restaurant opened in 1981.
Druthers Brewery Company of Saratoga Springs has won permission for a fourth location, this one in Clifton Park, the Albany Business Journal is reporting. They won permission for an 11,700 square foot building from the Planning Board on Tuesday, the story says.
Environment, Energy and Sustainability
U.S. Light Energy has proposed a solar energy production facility in an area zoned for homes on Reynolds Road, just south of Fort Edward, the Post-Star is reporting this morning. The Town of Moreau has said previously that they do not want solar energy in residential areas, but the company has proposed to build the facility, which could power about 1,300 homes, under a Planned Use Development, which might allow for construction, the story says.
Clean energy jobs are coming to Albany as part of a $26 billion public-private partnership in the green energy field, the Albany Business Journal is reporting this morning. Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the project during one of his State-of-the-State addresses. The project will turn an Albany-area brownfield site into a factory producing off-shore wind towers, the first of its kind in the country.
Travel, Tourism and Recreation
Creating a “safety risk” at Albany International Airport could land passengers or visitors in jail or expose them to fines of up to $35,000, a story in the Albany Times-Union is reporting. The Federal Aviation Administration has tightened security at airports in the wake of the mob attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.