Gloversville Common Council approves $2M bond for emergency repairs | The Daily Gazette
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The city Common Council voted 6-0 Tuesday night to authorize the borrowing of up to $2 million for emergency repairs to restore electric power to the Gloversville-Johnstown Joint Wastewater Treatment Facility.
Mayor Vince DeSantis described the accident at the sewer plant as “a disaster” that needs to be addressed “immediately, right now they’re operating much of the facility with generators.”
Sixth Ward Councilman Wrandy Siarkowski, a seven-year veteran member of the joint sewer board in charge of the wastewater facility, Tuesday night said the sewer plant started experiencing “rolling blackouts” sometime on Thursday. He said sewer plant officials brought in a consultant familiar with the plant’s early 1970s vintage power lines, which run through old Orangeburg pipes made from layers of ground wood pulp fibers, a type of piping in use before PVC pipes.
Rowback tried to challenge Simonds GOP petition for Gloversville council | The Daily Gazette
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GLOVERSVILLE – Records from the Fulton County Board of Elections show Republican mayoral candidate William Rowback Jr. filed an objection against fellow Republican Arthur Simonds’ petition to run in the GOP primary for city councilman-at-large against retired sheriff’s deputy Wayne Peters.
Fulton County Democratic Election Commissioner Gerry Ryan said under New York state election law Section 6-154, objecting to petitions is a two-step process.
“Anybody can file an objection within three days of the end of the nominating period,” Ryan said. “They then have to send a written objection with specific reasons within six days of filing the objection, if they miss the deadline the objection is null.”