The deadline to receive an economic stimulus payment from the Internal Revenue Service is next week, and the IRS is encouraging retirees and veterans to apply for theirs.
GUILDERLAND While the school year here, financed by an $84 million budget, has just begun, the process for constructing next year’s spending plan is already underway.
GUILDERLAND The school district continues to be satisfied with its legal counsel, the Albany law firm of Girvin & Ferlazzo, said school board President Richard Weisz on Tuesday.
KNOX Last Thursday, friends of Ryan Slingerland gathered near the gazebo in the center of Altamont. It had been almost 24 hours since Ryan died in a car crash.
KNOX A car accident on Oct. 1 resulted in Ryan Slingerland’s death, leaving his two friends injured. A lull has washed over the Berne-Knox-Westerlo High School, where Slingerland was a sophomore, but things are moving slowly back to normal.
GUILDERLAND Supervisor Kenneth Runion, a Democrat on the town board’s three-member majority, has asked that Republican Councilman Warren Redlich recuse himself from the town’s budget process.
NEW SCOTLAND Elizabeth Kormos, backed by a grassroots group she helped found, says she will not resign from the committee appointed to recommend commercial zoning for the old Bender melon farm.
NEW SCOTLAND Four North American farmers, including one from New York, won a legal battle last week against John Deere manufacturer Deere & Company, due largely to local attorney David P. Miranda.
GUILDERLAND Next year’s proposed town budget includes the first tax-rate increase in the nine years that Supervisor Kenneth Runion has been preparing Guilderland’s spending plan, he said.