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Waterwheel may turn
3/24/2024
Idle for a decade, Cobleskill’s waterwheel may be turning in a couple of months.
Creator Jonathan DiCesare updated the village board Tuesday night, saying the wheel in Veterans’ Memorial Centre Park is “fully functional,” though a few steps remain.
Mr. DiCesare began planning the waterwheel as an Eagle Scout project more than 10 years ago.
The idea was to produce electricity and promote renewable energy, and the project had the backing of then-Mayor Mark Galasso and Cobleskill Partnership Inc., the downtown improvement group.
Construction was intermittent, however, and in recent years, village officials wondered if the wheel would ever turn.
“A couple of mo ...
M'burgh responds to audit
3/24/2024
“The Town Board of Middleburgh supports honest, fair, and free elections with all of the checks, balances, and safeguards to insure that all elections are trustworthy and free of election fraud of any form, up to and including an independent audit.”
With that, the Town of Middleburgh answered requests by New York Citizens Audit volunteers to sign a Resolution for an Audit of the New York State 2022 General Election.
Formed in 2021, New York Citizens Audit calls itself “a non-partisan, all-volunteer…non-profit corporation dedicated to restoring and maintaining the essential, founding American principal of sovereignty through honest, provable elections in New York and across the ...
Best Western looking better
3/24/2024
“Right, that’s where the fire started. Downstairs in the records room.
“That’s the restaurant…all the doors are torn up…Next slide. This is where the pool was. Right, that’s where the second fire was. Mattresses thrown in the pool…”
Slide-by-slide, Cobleskill’s Werner Hampel took fellow supervisors through a look inside the wrecked Best Western, Friday.
It’s been nearly a year—May 2023—that Mohammed Jan bought the local-popular Cobleskill hotel--and he’s making great strides toward getting it open, this time as a Ramada by Wyndham.
That in itself is critical, Mr. Hampel said; knowing that the hotel will be a Ramada allows Mr. Jan to begin pricing and ordering ever ...
Sloane is top principal
3/24/2024
Middleburgh Central School’s High School Principal Matt Sloane is the best in the state.
Mr. Sloane, who joined MCS in September 2018 after a 20-year-plus career in the classroom and administration, serving for three years as deputy superintendent of Questar III BOCES, has been named the 2024 NY State Secondary Principal of the Year by the School Administrators’ Association of NY State.
He’ll be recognized at SAANYS State Convention in Saratoga in May and at the National Convention in Washinton, DC in the fall.
MCS Superintendent Mark Place shared work of Mr. Sloane’s honor at last Wednesday’s Board of education meeting.
For his part, Mr. Sloane praised MCS admini ...
St. Vincent's still in limbo
3/24/2024
The dilapidated and vacant St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church in Cobleskill remains in limbo.
Slated for either demolition or restoration––opposite ends of the spectrum––the church’s future may be in the hands of the village’s Historic District Review Commission.
The Commission earlier this month heard the parish’s argument for hardship because it doesn’t have funds to restore the Elm Street church, which has slates falling off the roof, crumbling bricks, a foundation in disrepair and mold inside.
Cobleskill Codes Officer Mike Piccolo declared the church unsafe in November.
Because the 1894 church is in Cobleskill’s historic district, the Commission must approve ...