BALLSTON SPA, January 2 – New Chairman of the Saratoga County Board of Supervisors Matthew Veitch showed his readiness to get to work when, escorted by colleagues into the Board Chamber at the annual organizational meeting on Friday, he went directly to the Chairman‘s seat and was about to conduct business, when he was reminded he first had to take the oath of office.
Read the entire article in the Jan. 8th issue of the Express.
This Thursday January 1, millions of Americans mark a holiday that has become virtually worldwide over a long road covering more than two thousand years, but made stops at several other dates along the way.
Observance of New Year’s Day as a national holiday on that date – in America and other societies, mostly celebrated the night before – now marches from timezone to timezone around the globe.
The celebration of the new year on this date developed over many centuries, indeed from several centuries BC/ BCE; but it became virtually worldwide by the late 16th century, mainly as the Gregorian Calendar superseded the Julian Calendar in most parts of the world, with a few more countries adopting it even as late as 1941.
Read the entire article in the January 1st edition of the Express.
TOWN OF STILLWATER, December 18 – The Stillwater Town Board has approved the 2015 Town Budget. It exceeds the Governor’s imposed 2 percent cap on tax increases, but not by very much, as Supervisor Edward Kinowski explained one final time.
Read the entire article in the December 25th edition.
STILLWATER AND BALLSTON SPA -- According to a document provided to Maplewood Manor employees, presumptive purchaser of the facility Zenith Healthcare proposes to cut 27 full- and part-time nurse and sixty full- and part-time nursing aide positions — along with about nine food service related workers; and thereby to save more than $1.8 million – this, as well as proposed pay cuts, many reaching well over forty percent for various positions.
Red the entire article in the Dec. 11th issue of the Express.
TOWN OF WATERFORD, November 25 -- Jack Honor of groSolar, a Vermont company, whom Supervisor John Lawler had asked to visit the Town Board agenda meeting, explained that, in keeping with a growing trend to build large solar energy systems through a system known as remote net metering, the Town could achieve a significant saving in electricity costs for its facilities..
(This would be for the Town government’s need, not the Town as a whole, Lawler pointed out.)
Read the entire article in the Dec. 4 issue of the Express.