Kenneth C. Crowe II reports in the Times Union that state Supreme Court Justice Patrick J. McGrath ruled in favor of the Town of Nassau in Rensselaer County last week, to shut down a large junkyard spread across four properties and will receive $509,000 in civil penalties. The estate of Barbara Secor, and its executor Stephen B. Nalley, violated a 2011 zoning ordinance that outlawed the junkyards in town, the judge ruled. "This latest court decision follows a decades-long effort to clean up illegal junkyards to bring properties into compliance. Successive town boards have been clear. There is one set of laws in Nassau and they apply equally to everyone," Supervisor David Fleming said on June 13. The judge ruled that the properties be cleaned in 30 days, with no more dumping, and that the property owners are forever banned from operating junkyards at the four locations, and that the town gets legal fees and $509,000 in civil penalties within in 60 days. Read more about this story in the Times Union.