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Schenectady Hardware & Electric may buy a building for a food co-op
Schenectady Hardware & Electric may purchase 530 Liberty St. in Schenectady and convert the interior for use as a co-op grocery store. The would-be tenant is the Electric City Food Co-op that has commitments totaling $4 million from the city and county governments, a story in the Albany Business Journal says. The co-op would use nearly half of the building, and small retailers and a commercial kitchen would use more of the space, the story says. The city may purchase the building if a state grant is awarded.
Hochul to visit Whitehall
Gov. Kathy Hochul will be in Whitehall on Wednesday for the official groundbreaking for the Champlain Hudson Power Express energy project, the Post-Star is reporting. The event is a prelude to construction of the Quebec-to-New-York-City hydro-electric power line. Forty-seven miles of the line will run in Washington County, the story says.
OSHA looking at Springs construction site
Nelson A. Bernard of Hoosick Falls died on Thanksgiving at Albany Medical Center, after falling two days earlier at the construction site of the Adelphi Hotel expansion near the intersection of Broadway and Washington Street in Saratoga Springs, the Daily Gazette says. Contractors Bast Hatfield and Bonacio Construction are both under inspection by OSHA, the story says. Video of the site did not change the investigation from accidental to criminal, the story says.
Judge gets a lawyer
Angela Kelley of East Greenbush will represent State Supreme Court Justice Peter Lynch in an Article 78 litigation filed against Lynch by Nauman Hussain, the owner of the limo company involved in the most deadly car accident in the nation’s history, the Times Union says. The crash killed 20 people. In August Lynch threw out Hussain’s no-jail plea deal that the previous judge in the case had approved. The previous judge retired. The current motion says that Lynch overstepped his authority by forcing Hussain to reject the deal or face immediate jail time, the story says. Kelley is working as a private attorney in this case.
Franklin County may take Tupper Lake Ski Area
Tupper Lake Village Mayor Paul Maroun told the Adirondack Daily Enterprise there’s a chance the in-operational Tupper Lake Ski Area could make its way into new hands within the next year and reopen as a ski area thereafter. Franklin County legislators are open to taking ownership of the property if a judge grants an “in rem” foreclosure order that would clear the deed on the property by removing liens on the property that lenders hold. Those lenders are fighting the move. If the county wins, it would transfer ownership to another government agency.