December 11, 2020

The Schodack SCENE: Holiday Celebrations and Small Gatherings

The Schodack SCENE: Holiday Celebrations and Small Gatherings: Winter Holidays Enjoy the holidays and take steps to protect yourself from getting or spreading COVID-19.  Learn more Winter Holidays Coping...

Holiday Celebrations and Small Gatherings

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Winter Holidays

Enjoy the holidays and take steps to protect yourself from getting or spreading COVID-19. Learn more

As cases, hospitalizations, and deaths continue to increase across the United States, the safest way to celebrate the winter holidays is to celebrate at home with the people you live with.

Gatherings with family and friends who do not live with you can increase the chances of getting or spreading COVID-19 or the flu.

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December 10, 2020

How this Troy retailer refocused her strategy for the pandemic winter

T&J Handcrafted Soap in downtown Troy
By   – Reporter, Albany Business Review

As a small business owner with lots to do every day, Theresa Van Duyne didn't spend a lot of time trying to sell her products online before the Covid-19 pandemic.

"It sort of got put on the back burner because I was so busy making things and helping customers," Van Duyne said during a phone interview at T&J Handcrafted Soap in downtown Troy.

"Covid definitely made us refocus on our website," Van Duyne said as she made balsam-scented candles for the Christmas holiday season.




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November 28, 2020

Small Business Saturday!

Small Business Saturday!!!
Support small local (or online) businesses today! We would love to see you and help pick out some wonderful gifts or treat yourself! Open 9:30am-9pm in the Schodack Plaza!
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Crack down on impaired and reckless driving


The New York State Police will participate in a special traffic enforcement initiative to crack down on unsafe driving behaviors during the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday. The special traffic enforcement period runs from Wednesday, November 25, 2020, through Sunday, November 29, 2020.

November 23, 2020

Thruway does away with people and cash

Thruway does away with people and cash

Pictured are Christa MacDonald and Richard Lindmark, the last toll collectors to work at Exit B-2 East Chatham where the Taconic State Parkway ends and meets the Thruway. Photo contributed
EAST CHATHAM—Gone are the days of scrambling for loose change between the car seats and the nanosecond of human contact while handing it over at a Thruway toll booth.

After 66 years, the Thruway has gone cashless. Read more...

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November 20, 2020

The Santa Claus Club has a message for village residents

Valatie Christmas tradition halted due to COVID
By Bill Williams Columbia-Greene Media
VALATIE — For the first time in 75 years, Santa Claus will not be making an early stop at children’s homes in Valatie, according to a statement from the Valatie Santa Claus Club. Read more...

        
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November 19, 2020

As Covid cases rise, ICC juggles schedules

As Covid cases rise, ICC juggles schedules
November 14, 2020 by EMILIA TEASDALE

KINDERHOOK—The Ichabod Crane Board of Education held an in-person and online meeting November 3. Board members, school staff and members of the public met in the primary school cafeteria while the district also offered the public the option to use Zoom to join the meeting online. One board member, Susan Ramos, attended the meeting through Zoom.

‘I am asking for your help in keeping everyone in our community as safe as possible.’
Supt. Suzanne Guntlow, ICC School District
This was the first board meeting since the district confirmed several positive Covid-19 cases among students in all three school buildings. On Sunday, October 25 the district emailed and called parents to announce the decision to close the primary school and move to online learning for middle and high school students on Monday, October 26 due to a primary school student testing positive for Covid-19. The district assisted the county Department of Health (DOH) with contact tracing, and more testing led to more positive cases. On October 29 the school emailed parents again saying, “We have confirmed there was one positive student in the middle school and two positive students in the high school.”