Alltown Fresh coming to Moreau, Route 9
The company that owns both the Xtra Mart Sunoco station on Route 9 in Moreau and Alltown Fresh convenience stores will switch the small grocery store for the gas station, the Albany Business Journal reports. The grocery will still have gas, but a new 4,800 square foot store will replace the much smaller gas station. Construction will begin soon with a target completion date of December, the story says.
Springs: GOP head wants emails, too
Michael Brandi, the Saratoga Springs Republican Committee chair has submitted a Freedom of Information Law request to the city asking for the emails collected by the Recreation Department, the Times Union is reporting. Brandi is arguing that the emails that have “leaked” from that department were actually public information all along, and Mayor Ron Kim is wrong by saying they do not fall under a FOIL release. The distribution of the emails outside of the Rec Department came to light when some people in the city received unwanted emails. A law that Brandi says allows the release might not allow the release in all cases, the story says.
[Editor's note: In our story, found here, Kim admits that it is unclear if any laws, or even government regulations, were broken when the emails were released.]
Election map is finalized
“Political maps for the next decade appear to be finally settled after months of legal battles,” the Times Union says. Saratoga County, including South Glens Falls, Moreau, Schuylerville, Ballston Spa and Saratoga Springs falls into Capital Region District 20. Paul Tonko currently holds the district, but he lives in Amsterdam which is now part of District 21, which Elise Stefanik represents. Tonko plans to run in district 20. All of Warren and Washington counties remain in the 21st.
The shed will be a short-term rental
A large metal shed in North Elba will be razed and converted into a large house and rented as a short-term rental, the Adirondack Daily Enterprise said. The Lake Placid-North Elba Review Board approved the plan on Tuesday. It had been a point of concern for many as the town and hamlet deal with the lack of affordable housing and the lack of the proper zoning to deal with the changes that reservations apps such as Airbnb bring, according to this story and others. The developer still must wait for the end of the town's moratorium on short-term-rentals before they could be given a permit.