Green Island News

For the first 45 years of his life, Ted Cross was oblivious to the birds around him.

With the death of Green Island's Jack McNulty, the last of Albany County's political giants has left us.

Here's a story, sad as it might be, that ends on nothing but a high note. It's the passing of John J. McNulty Jr., former mayor and town supervisor of Green Island and a longtime patriarch of the Democratic Party in Albany County.

THE FATHER OF FORMER CONGRESSMAN MIKE McNULTY HAS DIED. JACK McNULTY PASSED AWAY THIS MORNING, AT HOME WITH HIS FAMILY.

Former Green Island Mayor Jack McNulty has passed away. McNulty served as Green Island's mayor for nearly 30 years, retiring seven years ago.

The Green Island Power Authority was disappointed three years ago when the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rejected its application for a license to build a $75 million hydro power plant above the Cohoes Falls.

One person was displaced by a fire at a four-unit building at 121 Bridge Ave. this evening, city firefighters said.

Eben Bayer was trying to come up with an eco-friendly building material for a class assignment at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute when he remembered something from his childhood on a farm in Vermont.

In one University at Albany classroom, the method used to redevelop Harriman State Office Campus has become a lesson in what not to do.

Eben Bayer and business partner Gavin McIntyre looked at mushrooms and invented a lightweight biopackaging material that may compete with polystyrene in the packaging industry.

Warm November weather and a lack of rain means crews already are paving the new Maxwell Road.

The man's jacket with the air pocket floating in the hard-charging current was the only guide for Steven Jung as he swam toward the spot where he and other rescuers believed a man was in the Mohawk River.

There's the Champlain Bridge and its vital link between New York's North Country and Vermont that was allowed to rot beyond repair.

It's been a busy year since two graduates of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute won a $750,000 environmental prize for developing a environmentally friendly technique that uses mushroom fungus to make insulation and packaging material.

AN 18-YR-OLD MAN FROM GREEN ISLAND, WHO ESCAPED FROM POLICE CUSTODY PRIOR TO AN APPEARANCE IN WATERVLIET CITY COURT THIS MORNING, HAS BEEN RE-CAPTURED. POLICE SAY JASON GIBSON WAS LOCATED INSIDE A DRAINAGE PIPE ALONG THE SHORE OF THE HUDSON RIVER IN HIS UNDERWEAR, ABOUT THREE HOURS AFTER HE WENT OUT THE FRONT DOOR OF THE COURTHOUSE.

Police are searching now along the Hudson River for an escapee. A State Police helicopter is hovering over the river and Interstate 787 as authorities search for the suspect just north of the Congress Street Bridge.

A tradition of the local political culture is to eat a spaghetti lunch at St. Mary's Catholic Church on the afternoon before Election Day and return for dinner if you're running for office.

Jake Dominello had one of those experiences Thursday that you can only have on a field trip.

The Green Island Power Authority is one step closer to getting the federal license revolked for Brookfield Renewable Power's 39 megawatt School Street hydro plant just below the Cohoes Falls on the Mohawk River.

Timing and logistics are playing a major role in how supporters and those who oppose President Barack Obama are responding to his planned visit on Monday.