Oil spills in town plaza

Amanda May Metzger

QUEENSBURY -- A crew is cleaning up a spill of hundreds of gallons of oil from a utility transformer that was improperly moved on the new Hobby Lobby craft store site in Northway Plaza.

The spill was located behind the building and won’t affect the store’s opening.

Work on the interior of the building and the exterior, with the new vestibule, are progressing and the store is on track for a mid-May opening.

On March 20, National Grid sent a crew to the site for other work when workers noticed an old padmount transformer — which looks like a green box mounted on the ground — had been moved, resulting in a 242-gallon transformer oil spill.

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