“No person or entity shall sell, offer for sale, apply, offer to use biosolids or compost derived from wastewater treatment for residential, agricultural, or commercial purposes and land in the Town,” the law says. For a violation, it implements a fine of not more than $2,000 per day.

In his overview of Guilderland’s athletic programs, Austin was accommodating about the bottom line: While he advocates to meet the needs of burgeoning teams, he said, he understands budget constraints don’t always make his requests obtainable.

Since Albany County is no longer helping school districts with elections, Guilderland plans to consolidate from five polling places to three.

A winter storm watch will be in effect for most of eastern New York and western New England from 7 a.m. Tuesday until 1 a.m. Wednesday.

The state comptroller found that Guilderland, for the past four years, had not properly allocated sales-tax revenues from the county, to which Guilderland Supervisor Peter Barber responded that the 1965 state law on which the comptroller’s office relies is “grossly out of date.”

Come Jan. 1, Berne will have a bipartisan town board while Republicans will hold the offices of highway superintendent, clerk, and tax collector.

Brown said the center will help Parkinson’s patients physically, mentally, socially, and emotionally. “It’s not just about the individual,” he said, “but it’s also about the family and the caregiver. We have programs for them here as well. And the great news is that we’re doing all of this at no cost due to the wonderful partners that we have.”

In the 1960s, Indian Ladder Farms at the foot of the Helderbergs began to press cider on the front porch of its barn, according to a farm history written by the late Peter Ten Eyck in the farm’s 105th year.

Later in the day, Albany County Sheriff’s deputies arrived on the scene, Barcomb said, and then a town crew reappeared on Monday afternoon, this time to remove the debris that had been dumped that morning.

The $10 million firehouse will be built in the footprint of the old station at 1250 Western Ave.