Superintendent Marie Wiles said the district needs the traditional buses “no matter what.” Splitting the bus purchases into two propositions, she said, would help ensure getting those traditional buses even if the electric buses aren’t popular.

The district had used some of its federal funds, meant to help with pandemic expenses, to hire an extra nurse since there were added needs with vaccinations. Those federal funds run out next fall.

An Albany County Court judge OK’d the settlement on March 22. 

Altamont’s tax rate for next year is set to increase from $2.14 per $1,000 of assessed value to $2.18 per $1,000. 

GUILDERLAND — Two Buffalonians — a man and a woman — were arrested after, police say, they held up a local man who had arranged to meet the woman, whom he’d found on a dating website, at the Hampton Inn.

To encourage affordable housing and also to protect the town’s water quality and quantify, the draft says, the town board is proposing a six-month moratorium on subdivisions of five or more lots; apartment complexes of 25 or more units; and residential care facilities of 50 or more units.

“We need housing and you don’t, in my opinion, want people who aren’t going to live in a house to own a house and then just rent it out short-term a week at a time, a weekend at a time, a wedding at a time,” said Robert Randall at the public hearing. “The people living next to them no longer have a neighbor; they have strangers living next to them.”

Guilderland Supervisor Peter Barber described the building as being “frozen in time” and said he’d also like to acquire from the district the “big pot-belly stove” and the original desks and chairs that had been in the school until recent years because he’d like to “recreate what a school looked like at that time.”

Project applicant David Zhang was before the Guilderland Planning Board at its March 13 meeting with a proposal to reconfigure 1975 Western Ave.

Superintendent Marie Wiles told the board members at their March 12 meeting, that, by creating a third Comprehensive Skills section next year, “The hope is spreading those students out over three sections, recognizing the wide range of age levels that are served there, [ages] 14 to 22, will give us a lot more opportunity to meet those individual needs, customize the programs for those students as they age through the program and their journey here.”

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