RENSSELAER COUNTY, N.Y. — School budgets were approved in Rensselaer County schools on Tuesday night.Averill ParkResidents of the Averill Park Central School District supported a $66.6 million budget for the 2024-25 school year by a vote of 697(yes) to 338 (no).The approval of the bus and equipment proposition, by a 672 (yes) to 360 (no) […]
CAPITAL REGION, N.Y. â On Tuesday, May 18, school districts across the Capital Region held votes on budgets and school board elections. According to the New York State School Boards Association, New York voters approved 99.2% of school district budgets. We appreciate the many who turned out â in person or by absentee ballot â to approve local school budget proposals and elect school board members this year, NYSSBA Executive Director Robert Schneider stated. The high passage rate for proposed budgets is a welcome endorsement of spending plans that will strengthen our educational programs and restore some of the academic and student support services that were curtailed by the pandemic, Schneider continued.
In Hoosick Falls, Gillibrand outlines bill for medical monitoring system
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1of23Buy PhotoSen. Kirsten Gillibrand, center, listens to Loreen Hackett of PFOA Project NY, right, during a roundtable discussion with advocates and community leaders where Sen. Gillibrand announced legislation to create a federal cause of action that would help courts award medical monitoring for victims of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) exposure and bolster PFAS research on Monday, April 5, 2021, at the Hoosick Falls Armory in Hoosick Falls, N.Y. (Will Waldron/Times Union)Will Waldron/Albany Times UnionShow MoreShow Less
2of23Buy PhotoView of the Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics plant on Monday, April 5, 2021, near the Hoosic River in Hoosick Falls, N.Y. PFOAs, or perfluorooctanoic acid, leaked into the Hoosick Falls municipal water system and nearby private wells from St. Gobain and Honeywell plants that made anti-stick chemicals. PFOAs are a key ingredie