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As mayor for the past 11 1/2 years, Bill Hall was instrumental in securing numerous grants and donations to help fund a vast array of village improvements. Among the most notable and visible to the residents are: •  $4,162,722 grant for new water lines throughout the village (construction begins 2025)•  New playground equipment – $128,182.29 donated by Greenidge Generation•  Additional cost of wood chips for the playground – Greenidge donated $2,342.50•  New, more efficient water meters•  Mixer/aerator grant for the water tank•  Generator grants for the water building and Village/Fire Dept.

It's the latest in a long line of unaffordable, impractical, and unrealistic clean energy mandates rapidly being implemented in New York State that will have little impact on the global climate but will be extremely costly for consumers, unreasonably restrictive for local economies, businesses, and industries, and enormously burdensome for local governments and local taxpayers. Specifically, this forthcoming mandate is known as the Advanced Clean Truck (ACT) rule.

If you are like many Chronicle-Express readers, you might say your favorite part of the newspaper each week is the Pages Past column, where news from past issues of the newspaper are either reprinted or summarized. It was always a favorite task of mine when I was the editor.