ALTAMONT — A social media spat has spilled over into the courtroom as Jackie Silvestri-Edwards, former owner of Farmhouse Tap + Tavern and founder of the locally-popular 518 Foodies site, is suing the owners of the Taste of Italy restaurant in Latham for defamation, disparagement, and assault. 

The project is located on 44 acres of land nestled between the homes of Crow Ridge Road to the east, National Grid’s right-of-way to the west, an expanse of green to the north, and New Scotland Road to the south. 

“Sometimes when you present a number, it gets fixated on and it comes up meeting after meeting,” VCSD Interim business official Lissa Jilek told the school board at its January meeting. 

The housing for people 55 and older would consist of three buildings of four units each and would be located near the intersection of Carmen and West Old State roads.

The district’s lawyer, Ryan Mullahy, was on hand at the board’s Jan. 6 meeting to talk about student discipline.

The tavern, which was built by philanthropist and village native Ed Mitzen, is now run by the Druthers Brewing Company, which operates five other restaurants in the Capital Region. 

The mailer is asking recipients to weigh in on a new Altamont Post Office, stating, “Because of a space deficiency, USPS proposes moving to a building of approximately 6,000 square feet with 30+ parking spaces within the preferred zip code 12009. The proposed new facility will maintain the same level of service and eliminate the space constraints at the current facility.”

 The town is looking to balance its books and make taxpayers whole by allocating its remaining portion of American Rescue Plan Act funding to the Hilton Barn project. 

While the school district dealt with a social-media mess and incidents of antisemitism, it welcomed new leadership at its middle school and high school and proceeded with its $25 million capital project. The town continued to fine-tune itself, and new projects and resolutions to long-term ones have and will change the face of the village. 

No formal application has been submitted to the town, but members of the development team looking to build the project at 6 and 10 Mercy Care Lane met this week with Guilderland’s Development Planning Committee.