Emilia Teasdale reports in The Columbia Paper that there was little opposition to the the Albany-Hudson Electric Trail last week in Kinderhook. The village held a public hearing last week about buying a parcel of land from the Samascott farm for the trail. The trail project is scheduled to be complete in 2020 from the City of Rensselaer to Greenport, mostly along National Grid rights-of-way. The state is paying for the $35- to $45-million cost for the entire trail construction. In Kinderhook, the state will pay about $12,000 in fees for the 0.48-acre parcel and the lawyers’ fees for the sale but then the village owns the trail land. There is still environmental work to be completed before the village can vote on the sale. “We probably can do it at our November meeting,” Kinderhook Village Mayor Jim Dunham said. Kinderhook would pay about $1,200 annually for maintenance under the plan. Read the full story in The Columbia Paper.