“As everybody is quite aware over the last few years,” Supervisor Douglas LaGrange said during the town board’s Sept. 10 meeting, the 40-year-old Swift Road Water District system has “had a tremendous amount of leaks.”
Also during its Sept. 10 meeting, the board was informed about a drive-thru restaurant looking to be built on land surrounding the proposed Western Avenue ATM.
On Sept. 2, Charlie Giglio told Altamont trustees that “I do a lot of driving. And I don’t know if it’s my imagination or not, but I think every road except Brandle Road has been repaved.”
The 2025-26 school year started with board members being apprised of the implementation of the state’s mandated cell-phone ban policy, the district’s multi-million-dollar capital project, and the award of two grants.
During the Altamont Board of Trustees September meeting, Al Caruso, a Guilderland resident of the senior-living Brandle Meadows condominium complex, came to ask what the village can do about the appliance-damaging manganese in his water supply.
RIC Energy is seeking permission to install a five-megawatt battery energy storage system, or BESS, on seven acres of the 137-acre New Scotland Beagle Club.
New Leaf Energy’s applications identify the properties as 37 and 128 Wormer Road — each parcel is about 13 acres — owned by New Scotland Councilman Adam Greenberg.
