Wolverine blamed the 100-year manufacturing history at the tannery grounds when asked to speculate why there are such high PFAS levels at the site.

Excavators have dug 10 feet down so far and they are finding the chromium-soaked soils under concrete and piping that runs west toward the former tannery wastewater treatment plant.

In Tannery Creek itself, coho salmon survived those early wastewater days thanks to intervention, but by the late 20th century, their dwindling numbers have hit bottom.

BALLSTON SPA - A project to tear down several blighted buildings on Bath Street and build 168 new apartment homes is being proposed.

Santa Cruz Fire Department Battalion Chief Daniel Kline, left, monitors a multi-alarm blaze Thursday afternoon at the Tannery Arts Center in Santa Cruz as a youngster, at right, watches ...

A view of the Salz Tannery in 1951. The A.K. Salz Tannery, was known for their unique type of leather — “California Saddle Leather.” Now the Tannery Arts Center, the site was home to an ...

Conifer Realty has proposed a new development at the former American Hide Leather Haight Co. Tannery site at 125 Bath Street in Ballston Spa. Named Tannery Commons, the development would have 168 ...

The Roenitz brothers, immigrants Charles T. and William E. Roenitz, began what would become a tannery empire on Eighth Street.

It’s believed the original tannery was erected around 1860 as one of the complementary businesses to accommodate the Sussex County borough’s then thriving iron manufacturing industry.