The increase, the first since 2009, raises minimum New Scotland senior household eligibility requirements from $29,000 to $50,000, and from $37,400 to $58,400.

The latest changes, approximately $150,000 in total, were approved by the town board during its Dec. 13 meeting. But New Scotland taxpayers won’t be on the hook for overages, according to Councilman William Hennessy. 

The approval was made by the New Scotland Planning Board at its December meeting. 

In October, an Albany Court judge signed off on an order authorizing the Utica National Insurance Company to pay Stephanie Remmert $16,183.97, and her lawyers, Harding Mazzotti LLP, $6,316.07.

A Dec. 1 letter to Guilderland Supervisor Peter Barber stated the Altamont Rescue Squad “will be discontinuing providing basic life support emergency medical services” within Guilderland and portions of Knox. 

The embattled mall’s parent company, Pyramid Management Group, made the announcement in a Thursday press release, stating “it had successfully worked with its lenders to extend the loan on its Crossgates property for five years.”

Part of the Nov. 15 Guilderland ZBA meeting acted as a public hearing for Beck Concepts LLC’s request challenging a violation it received “for utilizing a single-family dwelling for the purpose of transient rental accommodations.”

In reality, the New Scotland Town Board last month adopted a budget for next year that is up about $515,000 over this year, according to Lisa Boehlke, Supervisor Doug LaGrange’s clerk and bookkeeper. 

Two years after just saying no and 18 months after just saying yes, Guilderland is expecting its first marijuana retail sales shop.

The New Scotland Town Board on Aug. 22 passed a resolution voluntarily recognizing the Civil Service Employees Association as the “exclusive bargaining agent for the purpose of collective bargaining” for about 17 blue-collar workers in New Scotland’s highway, water and sewer, mechanic, transfer station, and parks departments