Leader-Herald |
JOHNSTOWN — The Fulton County Board of Supervisors plans to announce later last week the successor to Anne Solar, the county’s retiring director of social services.
County Administrative Officer Jon Stead’s announcement Monday afternoon followed an executive session where the board voted to make the job offer. And that followed a special meeting and executive session earlier Monday where supervisors interviewed candidates.
Solar plans to retire by the end of the year from the job she’s held since 2018. Her career spanned 43 years, all with the County Department of Social Services.
The delay in the announcement will let the county notify the candidate who did not get an offer, Stead said.
That announcement followed the board’s year-end meeting, where it adopted, without opposition, more than 50 resolutions — mostly year-end shuffling of fund balances and approval of 2026 contracts with outside agencies. Supervisors Cynthia Breh (R-Oppenheim), Frank Lauria (R-Gloversville), Dino Orfan (R-Gloversville) and John Praught (R-Johnstown) were absent.
Among them:
President Donald Trump said Monday that his administration would give companies such as Deere & Co. permission to “take off a lot of the environmental restrictions that they have on machinery,” blaming them for driving up costs for farmers.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump pressured farm-equipment manufacturers to drop prices for tractors as he announced $12 billion in farmer relief, his latest efforts to address Americans’ concerns about shaky economic conditions under his leadership.
Trump said Monday that his administration would give companies such as Deere & Co. permission to “take off a lot of the environmental restrictions that they have on machinery,” blaming them for driving up costs for farmers.
“They’re going to have to reduce their prices because farming equipment has gotten too expensive, and a lot of the reason is because they put these environmental excesses on the equipment, which don’t do a damn thing except make it complicated,” the president said.
Voters have grown restless with Trump’s stewardship of the economy, as household budgets are crunched by persistent inflation and a weakening job market. That extends to agricultural producers, a group of reliable Trump supporters who have been hit hard by his tariff regime and low........