The Huletts Current

The trailer for SALT, the Angelina Jolie thriller that was filmed in Albany this past year, was recently released. While it won’t be in theaters until July 23, 2010, you can definitely see parts of Albany in the preview. They were filming the jump from the overpass when we brought a friend to the Albany-Rensselaer [...]

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Gov. Paterson has for the second year in a row called for midyear cuts in state school aid that would cost the Whitehall School District $253,637 this year but help close a projected $3-billion state budget gap. The School Superintendent’s are none too happy about this. You can see the proposed cut for the Whitehall [...]

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NPR had a good segment on Morning Edition about the alleged Fort Hood gunman. The guy was apparently giving off all kinds of warning signs before yesterday.

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For those who may have missed this, here is Big Bird being interviewed on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Sesame Street turns 40 years old next week, so I thought I’d pass this along. Some fun with a big yellow friend on a Friday afternoon. (Video is in 2 parts.)

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I contacted the Washington County Board of Elections and as of 1:00 p.m. Wednesday afternoon, they had received 51 absentee ballots from Dresden. To be counted, an absentee ballot has to be postmarked the day prior to the election. The Board of Elections will start counting absentee ballots on Tuesday, November 10th. They’ll go through [...]

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Tuesday Machine Vote Totals (Unofficial) Absentee Ballots still to be counted. (61 Absentee Ballots Requested / 47 Returned as of 11:00 a.m. Tues. morning.) Town Board Vote – 2 Seats Open     Votes Wayne Barrett (I)     112 Joanne Farley (R)     85             Arthur Borin (R) [...]

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New York Supreme Court races have gone largely under the radar so far, namely because judicial candidates really can’t say how they’ll decide individual cases. Huletts Landing is in the the fourth judicial circuit, comprising Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Hamilton, St. Lawrence, Montogomery, Saratoga, Schenectady, Warren and Washington counties. New York State Courts offers an [...]

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I contacted the Washington County Board of Elections and they had issued 60 absentee ballots as of Saturday, October 31st, to Dresden voters. As such, while I will report the vote totals for the local town board race as they come in on Tuesday night, the winners may not be decided until the absentee ballots [...]

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