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Electronics Recycling Day

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Legislature Announces Annual Electronics Recycling Day

Recycling Event will be held at East Greenbush County Offices

Rensselaer County Legislature Press Release

Chairwoman of the Legislature Kelly Hoffman proudly announces that the annual Electronics Recycling Event will be held at the new County Office Building at 99 Troy Rd in East Greenbush on Saturday, April 5th from 9:30 am until 1 pm. The Legislature and its Environmental Management Council team up each year to sponsor this very popular event.

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4th Grader Takes 2nd Place at Chess Championships

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Hoosick Falls Central School’s fourth grade student Eamon Keegan participated in the 57th annual New York State Scholastic Chess Championships. This was a 2-day, 6-game tournament, open to students in kindergarten through fifth grade. Eamon went undefeated in his section (K – 5, Under 600) and placed second (based on tiebreakers) out of 277 participants!

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Grafton Town Board Highlights

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by Denise Wright
The March 10th Grafton Town Board meeting was full of business, ranging from energy audits to Supervisor Committee assignments.

After the approval of the February 10th Town Board Organizational Meeting minutes, the town supervisor reported that several members of the board attended the EMS meeting in Poestenskill on February 20th. The meeting was well attended, with 150 people learning how to work on creating a solution for the lack of emergency services crisis in eastern Rensselaer County. The supervisor assured attendees that Grafton would “step up” to do their part in the solution and thanked the Grafton Rescue Squad for their services in keeping their community safe.

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New Trout Egg Pilot Program

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Submitted by Frank Dingman, RCCA President
The Homewaters Chapter 586 of Trout Unlimited along with members of the Rensselaer County Conservation Alliance began a Pilot Program with the stocking not of trout but of their eggs in two Rensselaer County waterways. This program was the brainchild of Homewaters TU member George Breen. The program started with the purchase of a number of “Whitlock Boxes” which will contain the eggs and is buried in the streambed and will mimic a natural trout nesting site or REDD. As the eggs mature and hatch the trout fry rise up through the gravel as would those on a natural trout REDD. Due to the decreased fish stocking in NYS both Homewaters TU and the RCCA decided to try and augment fish stocking by trying this program to try and increase trout numbers in the streams in Rensselaer County. If this program is successful the long-term goal is to expand the fish egg stocking to other streams in the county.

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Noon Concert Series Features Scott Hopkins Trio

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Talented trio of banjo, bass and drums performs a varied repertoire
The Scott Hopkins Trio will perform a free concert at noon on Thursday, March 6, as part of Hudson Valley Community College’s popular lunchtime concert series. The one-hour performance will take place in the Bulmer Telecommunications Center (BTC) Auditorium on the Troy campus. No reservations or tickets are needed to attend.

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Juvenile Felony Convictions

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TROY — Rensselaer County District Attorney Mary Pat Donnelly announced on February 26th, that four juvenile arrests have resulted in pleas and criminal convictions.

Kairo Kelliebrew pled guilty to Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second-Degree PL 265.03(3) for his role in a shots-fired incident that took place on May 15, 2024. On that date, Kelliebrew fired two shots from a handgun at other individuals in the area of River Street and Glen Avenue in Troy. Kelliebrew was sentenced on February 14, 2025, to 3 ½ years of incarceration followed by 5 years of post-release supervision. Kelliebrew, who was 17-years-old at the time of the crime, was denied youthful offender status. Assistant District Attorney Antonia Lane prosecuted Kelliebrew.

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Rensselaer County Emergency Medical Services In Crises

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by Jeffrey Belschwinder of Sidewinder Photography

Rensselaer County Emergency Medical Services is facing a crisis, as highlighted in a presentation by Warren Hayashi, MD, NRP, CCEMTP from Albany Med Health Systems at the Poestenkill Fire Department on February 20th. Dr. Hayashi emphasized that the views expressed in the presentation were solely his own and did not represent the positions of Rensselaer County Bureau of Public Safety, Albany Med Health System, or the Town of Colonie. Through comprehensive data and analysis, Dr. Hayashi has shed light on the collapsed emergency medical services (EMS) system in Rensselaer County.

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