Healthcare and Fitness
Today's regional business news.
The Saratoga Senior Center has launched a "Rise-Up Challenge" to raise money during the pandemic, the Saratogian is reporting. The center is looking to raise $10,000. Lois Celeste, the center's executive director, spoke Tuesday at the Saratoga Springs City Council meeting.
Manufacturing, Agriculture and Forestry
Big Rock Technologies, a local tech firm, received the blessings of the Saratoga Springs City Council, Saratoga Today is reporting. The letter is giving support to the company as part of its National Science Foundation grant. The Saratoga Today story also covers the city council meeting, which the Daily covered here.
Government, Law and Legal Services
Glens Falls is looking to crack down on owners of vacant houses, the Post-Star is reporting this morning. Under a proposed law, after a building is determined to be "vacant," the owner must show the city a plan to maintain and secure the building while it is empty or until it is inhabited, the story says.
A Saranac Lake police officer has been charged with a Class E felony for failing to include disciplinary information on his application to the force in 2017, the Adirondack Daily Enterprise is reporting this morning. The officer's background came to light after the Black Lives Matter movement pressured legislatures to change the laws regarding what is public about police. The change in New York's law allowed the Franklin County District Attorney's office to look into the background of the officer, though the office is saying little about what they found so far.
Human Resources and Employees
Novel Coworking is leasing four floors in a downtown Albany office building and opening business in January, the Albany Business Journal is reporting this morning. In coworking, an individual or company rents office space on a very short-term or rents access to office space that is shared with other companeis and people. Novel Coworking will cover the needs of businesses from a single desk to space for up to 75 people, the ABJ story says. For the Daily's coverage about the coworking company WorkSmart in Glens Falls, click here.
Public-Relations, Advertising and Marketing
The Warren County EDC is looking to hire people into two new positions, bringing the non-governmental group back to the four-person office it had before Ed Bartholomew, the former president, died over the summer. The positions will help the NGO in its outreach and in rebranding Warren County as a place for people who want to relocate out of urban areas and to handle its loan portfolio, a story in the Post-Star says.