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Thursday headlines
Jul 07, 2011 12:22 am
Gas drilling press conferences
A coalition of environmental groups hold a press conference in Albany Thursday, July 7, to deliver a sign-on letter to Governor Cuomo asking him to ban high-impact hydraulic fracturing gas drilling. The press conference will be at 11:30 am at the Legislative Office Building, LCA Room 120, in Albany. Citizens Campaign for the Environment will release the results of their mapping project of lands leased by gas developers throughout the eight counties in the Finger Lakes Region of New York, showing the threat to agricultural and tourism by the gas drilling. That press conference is at 10 a.m. in the Press Room, at the Legislative Office Building, LCA Room, in Albany.
Justice retires, cites health
Audra Jornov in the Register-Star reports that Valatie Village Justice Edward “Archie” Williams, resigned on Friday, July 1 due to health reasons. Williams had been the town’s justice since 1983, and the Kinderhook Town Board now needs to decide if they will appoint a new judge or wait until the upcoming fall elections. “We are having a regular audit meeting on the 14th of the month. David Dellehunt, from the Office of Court Administration is going to meet with the town board members and talk to them about options for an appointment of justice,” said Town Supervisor Patrick Grattan. “We are just going to talk to him and see what he says.” The story says that Williams is at the Barnwell Nursing Home in Valatie and was unavailable for comment as of press time. Read the full story in the Register-Star.
Second quarter patents in Tech Valley slip
"The Tech Valley Patent Index was down significantly [in the Second Quarter of 2011], actually dropping below 800 for the first time in over a year. However, the Capital Region indices remained strong compared to last quarter" said Spencer Warnick, partner at Hoffman Warnick, an intellectual property law firm based in Albany, NY, that tracks patent applications for the region. "The Capital Region numbers, however, are encouraging because they indicate less reliance on the large corporations, GE and IBM, that typically provide most of the issued patents in our area," Warnick says.
A coalition of environmental groups hold a press conference in Albany Thursday, July 7, to deliver a sign-on letter to Governor Cuomo asking him to ban high-impact hydraulic fracturing gas drilling. The press conference will be at 11:30 am at the Legislative Office Building, LCA Room 120, in Albany. Citizens Campaign for the Environment will release the results of their mapping project of lands leased by gas developers throughout the eight counties in the Finger Lakes Region of New York, showing the threat to agricultural and tourism by the gas drilling. That press conference is at 10 a.m. in the Press Room, at the Legislative Office Building, LCA Room, in Albany.
Justice retires, cites health
Audra Jornov in the Register-Star reports that Valatie Village Justice Edward “Archie” Williams, resigned on Friday, July 1 due to health reasons. Williams had been the town’s justice since 1983, and the Kinderhook Town Board now needs to decide if they will appoint a new judge or wait until the upcoming fall elections. “We are having a regular audit meeting on the 14th of the month. David Dellehunt, from the Office of Court Administration is going to meet with the town board members and talk to them about options for an appointment of justice,” said Town Supervisor Patrick Grattan. “We are just going to talk to him and see what he says.” The story says that Williams is at the Barnwell Nursing Home in Valatie and was unavailable for comment as of press time. Read the full story in the Register-Star.
Second quarter patents in Tech Valley slip
"The Tech Valley Patent Index was down significantly [in the Second Quarter of 2011], actually dropping below 800 for the first time in over a year. However, the Capital Region indices remained strong compared to last quarter" said Spencer Warnick, partner at Hoffman Warnick, an intellectual property law firm based in Albany, NY, that tracks patent applications for the region. "The Capital Region numbers, however, are encouraging because they indicate less reliance on the large corporations, GE and IBM, that typically provide most of the issued patents in our area," Warnick says.