Incumbent Timothy Kremer was the night’s lowest vote-getter, with 323 ballots cast in his favor, while Kathy Fiero nearly doubled Kremer’s count, receiving 643 votes, and Matthew Bergerson also far outpaced Kremer with 550 votes.
In October, engineer Richard Straut, who pulls double-duty as Voorheesville’s mayor, recommended that Altamont study the introduction of potassium ferrate into the drinking water at the Brandle Road site.
The Guilderland Town Board on May 7 voted unanimously to accept Guilderland Village LLC’s application for a proposed Planned Unit Development on 13 acres of land spread across five separate tax parcels between 2298 and 2314 Western Ave.
A public hearing on the proposed spending plan, which is technically up over 14 percent from this year due to a one-time, already-accounted-for $3 million capital project outlay, is set for May 13.
On Monday, the Voorheesville Central School District announced it had hired Lisa Cardillo, currently the principal of Taconic Hills Junior and Senior High School, to lead Clayton A. Bouton.
On May 7, a joint public hearing of the planning commission and zoning board is scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Voorheesville firehouse on Atlas Copco’s proposed expansion plans.
The proposed budget is under the state-set cap by about $16,000, and would raise tax rates for property owners in the towns of New Scotland, Guilderland, and Berne between about 2.7 percent and 3.2 percent, depending on the municipality.
