NEW SCOTLAND Residents across town opened up their mail on Monday to discover their property is worth substantially more. Town-wide the residential parcels, 3,047 of them, had an assessed value increase of 80 percent over last year.
GUILDERLAND The school district here is still refining the shared decision-making plan required by the state for a dozen years and instituted initially in Guilderland nearly three decades ago.
ALTAMONT A local developer, hoping to keep costs down on a large senior complex, protested the villages proposal to charge a fee for new hookups to the Altamont water system.
For second time Planning board rejects two-acre rezone
NEW SCOTLAND The towns planning board on Tuesday night again voted unanimously not to rezone the northeast quadrant of town to prevent building lots smaller than two acres.
BERNE Three years after the Berne-Knox-Westerlo School District shortened the term lengths of school board members, most members of the current board want it changed back.