About two dozen members of 1199 Service Employees International Union took to the Guilderland facility’s parking lot on April 5 to call on Governor Kathy Hochul to close what they say is a Medicaid coverage gap in the 2024 state budget.  

Altamont appears to be having a difficult time recruiting members to join its comprehensive plan review committee, a contrast with the town of Guilderland and its update committee, which has nine members and received twice as many applicants. 

A public hearing for Voorheesville’s budget proposal is set for Thursday, April 13, at 6 p.m., at Village Hall. 

If approved, next year’s Voorheesville Central School District budget would represent a 6.9-percent increase over this year and a 2.5-percent increase in the property-tax levy.

The poor condition of the School Road crossing was the result of track work performed by Norfolk Southern in January. Meanwhile, Voorheesville Mayor Richard Straut said he and village attorney Rich Reilly continue to advocate for the Quiet Zone, which has been stalled over project funding. 

Longtime Altamont village justice Rebecca Morse-Hout declined to seek re-election this year, and no candidate filed a petition to replace her. But barely a week before the March 21 election, Bridget Holohan Scally was OK’d by her employers to run for the position, which required mounting a write-in campaign. 

The Guilderland Planning Board signed off on the proposed site plan for Costco, voting unanimously to send as its recommendation to the zoning board Town Planner Kenneth Kovalchik’s memo on the project

The town board on March 21 tabled a vote that would have determined if the proposed Black Creek Run development at 6250 Depot Road would have a significant adverse impact on the environment.

New Scotland Town Planner Nan Stolzenburg on March 8 told town board members that the update started with a zoning and subdivision audit that she did many years ago, which “resulted in a series of recommendations for updating and improving the zoning and the subdivision law.”

Bridget Holohan Scally received 43 write-in votes to become Altamont’s next village justice. Scally is currently Deputy General Counsel to the New York State Department of Labor.