ALTAMONT Although Altamont’s budget is $54,000 less than last year, property taxes will increase by 17 percent in 2009 to balance conservative estimates on revenues from county sales taxes.
GUILDERLAND Old barns may get new life as the town board here considers enacting a law that would give a tax break to those who restore or rebuild them.
NEW SCOTLAND A law framed by the town’s planning board will likely head for review by the county planning board while a law favored by a vocal citizens’ group is left behind.
HILLTOWNS Helderberg Community Watch and Schoharie Valley Watch, two local community watchdog organizations that seek to inform their neighbors about the pros and cons of wind energy, have formed an alliance.
GUILDERLAND Diane Evans, a retired math teacher turned studio quilter, is the featured artist at this month’s Upstate Artists Guilds national show, “Loose Threads.”
VOORHEESVILLE Following the distribution of funds from the federal stimulus package to schools, the final budget here will be the same as last year, $21,662,438, and several teaching positions will be restored.
Local municipalities are among those that have so far submitted $100 billion in requests for New York’s infrastructure stimulus funds but the state has just $4 billion to spend on these projects, according to the governor’s office.