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Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that the New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation Board of Directors has approved $34.2 million in grants, interest-free loans, and low-cost loans to support vital drinking water and wastewater infrastructure projects across New York State. The FY 2022 Enacted Budget adds a $500 million appropriation to support clean water, raising the State s total investment to $4 billion and continuing to fulfill the State s $5 billion clean water commitment. Access to clean water is an essential piece in building strong, vibrant communities and it s critical our local partners have the resources they need to protect the health and safety of New Yorkers,
Mt. Marcy rescue: Hiker with hip injury carried down snowy trail by Forest Rangers and others at night
Updated May 18, 2021;
State Forest Rangers in recent weeks were kept busy rescuing injured or lost hikers, along with fighting wildfires and doing prescribed burns.
In one instance, a woman who suffered a hip injury after slipping on ice on top of Mt. Marcy in the Adirondacks had to be carried down the mountain trail in a litter during the night. The trail had two to three feet of snow and ice in some places. One of the rescuers exhibited possible cardiac symptoms and also had to be “closely monitored.”
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Editorial: Mr. Silver, back to prison
Times Union Editorial Board
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Hey, did you hear the one about the guy who dragged out his legal case for years, and when he got to prison said, “Have pity on me, warden, I’m an old man”?
Sheldon Silver, 77, may have been laughing, but the rest of us weren’t when the ex-Assembly speaker was released from prison last week.
He went home on furlough while officials weighed his request to serve the rest of his 6 1/2-year sentence on federal corruption charges in home confinement. He’d been in prison for about eight months.