The Dec. 19 opinion from the Rural Guilderland Referral Committee states Acton Albany’s application to open a community resource center at 6378 Gun Club Road “is not consistent and does not meet the criteria set forth in the previous” town-issued special-use permit.

Studies have been commissioned, committees convened, and reports filed, but getting the state to ultimately commit to the idea has stalled. 

Winchell made the announcement Wednesday, citing family obligations; she expects to resign at the Voorheesville Board of Trustees Feb. 11 workshop

1434 Western Ave., currently home to a dog daycare and spa and once home to an illegal nightclub, is set to become a co-working space.

The town recently filed lawsuits against the four property owners — two on East Old State Road and two on Liberty Court — but has already settled two of the cases and expects the other two to be wrapped up soon.

During the Jan. 5 meeting of Voorheesville’s board of education, Superintendent Frank Macri first offered praise for the job the district’s transportation department had done over the past year, but added, “Like many school districts across the region, across the state, across the country, we have struggled with staffing with our bus drivers and getting bus drivers staffing.”

For months, the board of education, a separate rezoning committee, and the public have debated a number of options to reshuffle students, ultimately arriving at two proposals.

In a Dec. 30 letter to Judge Paul Evangelista, the Voorheesville attorney in the case wrote, “As neither an answer nor motion for summary judgment has been filed in response to” Voorheesville’s counterclaims against Norfolk Southern or its third-party suit against JC Pops, the village “is entitled to voluntarily dismiss its claims .…”

As the year came to a close, Guilderland found itself at odds with a very specific set of town residents.

Much was achieved over the course of the past year in the town of New Scotland and village of Voorheeville.