The Express Newspaper October 10, 2013
Tag Archives: wessell
The Express Newspaper – October 3, 2013
Stillwater Rezoning: DONE – By Harold Wessell
The Stillwater Town Board on this date adopted, after a final hearing with few present, zoning changes in the works for several months.
"Zoning is important, from many aspects," began Supervisor Edward Kinowski. "A lot of people just skip by when they hear ‘new zoning map,' without recognizing what it potentially can do for their property -- and it's all about what they can do on the property," whether restricting or expanding or otherwise adding specific purposes to its further use in some cases.
To Read More Login To The Local Paper
The Express Newspaper – September 26, 2013
Brown’s Beach – Stillwater’s New Park – By Harold Wessell
TOWN OF STILLWATER, September 17 – After months of speculation, months of negotiation ...and years of community interest, long-missed Brown’s Beach began the journey back to its place in the leisure and recreation of residents of Stillwater and Mechanicville, the Saratoga Lake area, the Towns of Malta and Saratoga and beyond.
"Many articles have been published recently concerning the fate of Brown's Beach,” Town Supervisor Edward Kinowski told the Express this week. "Well, the suspense is all but over. If all goes well, the official closing will take place on 17 September." And so on this day (after this newspaper's press time),
To Read More Login To the Weekly Paper
Stillwater Clears Way for Fab 8.2 – By Harold Wessell
TOWN OF STILLWATER, Sept. 5 – "And with that vote goes a lot of months of work, folks, " Stillwater Town Supervisor Edward Kinowski declared early in the Town Board meeting for September.
A set of three resolutions, similar to those enacted in the Town of Malta several days ago, were approved to accept some amendments to the Planned Development District requested by Global Foundries and the tech campus.
To Read More Login Into The Weekly Paper
Waterford-Troy Bridge to be Honored
by Harold Wessell
On September 8 of this year, at Noon in the Soldiers and Sailors Park in Troy, the American Society of Civil Engineers will unveil a plaque recognizing both bridges of the Troy-Waterford crossing as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark – an award that since the program began in 1964 now lists at least 260 structures of particular engineering significance. Following is a brief history of this unique structure.
One day in 1972 this writer, arriving in Dubuque, Iowa, new to town, stepped into a traditional looking tavern to ask some directions.
To Read More Login To The Weekly Paper
County Opens New Veterans Counseling Center
By Harold Wessell
BALLSTON SPA, Aug. 14 and 20 – Saratoga County Supervisors announced a now-annual fundraising event in support of services to military veterans, and a new counseling site in the County for combat vets.
The counseling location is to be a satellite of the Veterans Center in Colonie and
staffed five days a week – the schedule still to be worked out according to County Veterans Service Agency Director Felipe Moon. It is being provided by the Town of Saratoga.
To Read More Login To The Weekly Paper
Waterford/Cohoes Bridge
by Harold Wessell
WATERFORD, Aug.13 – The state Department of Transportation held identical-format public sessions, in Waterford on this date, and in Cohoes two days later, to explain developing plans to replace the bridge between them. “This project affects a lot of people in our community but also people who every day commute in and out on Saratoga Ave., onto 787 etc., and there’s going to be a lot of interest in our community,” observed Supervisor John Lawler. The Supervisor spoke favorably of DOT project manager Geoffrey Wood and the team.
To Read More Login To The Weekly Paper
Malta Approves GloFo Changes
By Harold Wessell
MALTA AND STILLWATER, August 20 – Longtime Malta Supervisor David Meager touted his Town so often as "The Center of the Universe," that the subtitle became common parlance. If he were in office today, he might well be laying claim to the End of the Rainbow as well, for his Town and its co-host to the Luther Forest Technology Campus, the Town of Stillwater.
The Malta board on Monday approved a potential major turning point in the fortunes of GlobalFoundries – and of the Towns – granting zoning amendments to the company that clear the way for a Fab 8.2 – whose physical size... including clean room almost twice the seize... price tag size, at $14.7 billion.. and expected boost to employment at the tech campus would easily eclipse that generated by Fab 8.1 – sending employment soaring to about 6,700 by 2020.
To Read More Login To The Weekly Paper