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Tang Museum is 25

The France Young Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore marked a quarter century with a day of art and craft activities, special foods and live music by Dan Carr and the Cure for Asthma, an Albany-based band, the Daily Gazette says.

Historic house moving?

The Adelphi Hotel and Residences owners are proposing to relocate a historic home on Washington Street, returning it to its previous owners, the Bethesda Episcopal Church, a story in the Times Union says. The former church rectory could move across the street onto a vacant lot owned by the church, making way for a larger Aldelphi footprint, the story says.

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Tentative celebration in dropping opioid overdoses

New York state health officials are cautiously celebrating decreases in opioid overdose death rates, a story in the Times Union says. Although the overall rate is solid, the rates for older Black, Indigenous and Hispanic men are still above average. The question is both how to reach those communities, and how to get opioid settlement money, some $400 million, into the hands of people who can help, the story says.

Wild Wings in Wilton

The restaurant chain Buffalo Wild Wings is looking to build a 6,000-square-foot restaurant with 900-square-foot patio on Lowe’s Drive in Wilton directly across the street from the Lowe’s Home Improvement store, the Albany Business Review says. The project is still young, yet the company will look to receive conceptual approval from the town’s planning board in September, the story says.

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HABS in Lake Champlain

Authorities in Westport, Port Henry and Moriah along Lake Champlain’s New York shoreline have been forced to close beaches due to harmful algal blooms during the hottest weather thus far this year, a story in the Adirondack Explorer is reporting. Vermont’s comprehensive blooms tracker has documented dozens of HABs this month, most were mild. HABs produce an cyanobacteria — or blue-gree algae — with the potential to make humans and other animals sick. Little Tupper Lake in Hamilton County and Otter Lake in Oneida County have also seen blooms, the story says.

Prisons drive OT pay

State agencies paid out about $1.3 billion in overtime costs in 2024, up 10% over the 2023, according to a story on the WAMC website. The story cites a New York state comptroller report. The Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, the prisons oversight department, has seen the staff shrink and overtime explode for those who remain, making that department responsible for two-thirds of the state’s overtime increases. DCCS spent 26% more on overtime pay in 2024 than in 2023, according to the story.

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