“Yeah, it’s a place where families who are homeschooled can come bring their kids just to have open play games, projects,” project applicant Katie Coffey told Planning Board Chairman Stephen Feeney.

The new proposal shifts focus from procedural details to a broader framework that emphasizes equity, communication, and student growth.

The village tax increase came amid an audit by the Office of State Comptroller.

The mall’s parent company, Pyramid Management Group, announced in November that it had secured new financing totaling more than $200 million for Crossgates Mall in Guilderland and Crossgates Commons in the city of Albany. 

“It’s a 70-30 grant,” Dineen said, meaning the village is on the hook for 30 percent of the project’s cost.

The volunteer-run not-for-profit food pantry on Monday was the recipient of $10,000 from Assemblywoman Gabriella Romero’s office. 

In multiple court filings made since first dropping its federal suit in early October, Norfolk Southern has asked for a declaratory judgment stating that federal jurisdiction over the railroad industry preempts Voorheesville’s zoning law.

As the Guilderland Town Board began its discussion of the 107-unit proposal on Nov. 18, Supervisor Peter Barber said, “I always like to use an analogy to baseball because I think at this step we’re not even in the first inning. This is simply just to accept the application, meaning that we're not approving it.”

The town began to update its two-decade-old plan just before the pandemic, but decided not to proceed until November 2022 because public participation was at the core of the process. 

Before the planning board for a preliminary review on Nov. 12, Albany Country Club is seeking permission to build hundreds of housing units off of Wormer Road.