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Years-long effort to finish Orchard Park in Mont Pleasant neighborhood close to reality | The Daily Gazette
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SCHENECTADY – City and county officials and community members interested in creating a safe, recreational space on Crane Street showed off work on an expanded one-acre park that once sat in the shadows of six dilapidated buildings.
Mayor Gary McCarthy described Orchard Park on Crane Street in the Mont Pleasant neighborhood as a pocket park.
“But it was like a pocket inside of two pair of jeans, wrapped in a pair of overalls, and left in the wash for a couple of weeks,” McCarthy quipped.
Schenectady County Legislature votes to buy dispatch center building | The Daily Gazette
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ROTTERDAM After years of leasing the building that houses the Schenectady County Unified Communication Center, the county on Tuesday approved buying the building using a 25-year bond.
The Legislature voted 13-0 to purchase the 4,320-square-foot building at 1694 Hamburg St. in Rotterdam for $1.5 million.
Legislator Jeffrey McDonald, D-Schenectady, was excused from the meeting. Republican Brian McGarry, who represents the towns of Duanesburg, Princetown and Rotterdam, was absent.
The county has been using the building since 2014 for its consolidated dispatch center, where it currently houses 45 dispatchers.
“It’s been a tremendous success,” said County Manager Rory Fluman before the meeting Tuesday.
Schenectady County addresses pent up demand for weddings, meetings of up to 150 attendees | The Daily Gazette
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GLENVILLE Stakeholders in Schenectady County’s tourism industry said they were prepared for pent up demand for weddings and events of up to 150 people amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
During a press event at Water’s Edge Lighthouse Monday, discussion of the governor’s new guidelines for weddings and events centered on thermal kiosks that would ‘welcome’ guests by taking their temperatures and other baseline details.
The new guidelines allow up to 150 people, or 50% of a venue’s capacity, to attend weddings and meetings.
New skin temperature technology enforces COVID safety at Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake | The Daily Gazette
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Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake A normal school day at O’Rourke Middle School used to just start with a bus ride, school breakfast and morning announcements. But with a new gadget now welcoming them at the double doors, kids must align their foreheads with a height-adjustable machine in order to get the green light to learn.
This new addition to their routine is courtesy of local company Shepherd Communication & Security, which introduced its Elevated Body Temperature technology just a couple of months into lockdown last year. After vetting a few different technologies, the district realized the EBT was exactly what they needed.