The ordeal started on social media and spilled into the real world this week.

At its Oct. 12 meeting, the board adopted a negative state Environmental Quality Review Act declaration for the project, meaning it determined the proposal would not have a significant adverse impact on the environment. 

New Scotland Senior Outreach Liaison Deb Engel said she was told her application is still in the running, but hasn’t heard anything about a final award. “It should be within the next few weeks,” she said when asked about when a decision would be made. 

“It’s a small grant,” Assemblywoman Patricia Fahy said of the $40,000 that went to the Wyman Osterhout Community Center in New Scotland, “but it carries a serious weight, and makes a serious difference.”

For 2023, the town is proposing a tax rate of $1.50 per $1,000 of assessed value for all New Scotland property owners — including those who live in the village of Voorheesville — the same as this year. 

Albany County Executive Dan McCoy’s proposed budget is under the state-set levy limit for the 10th year in a row.

 The 1.875 megawatt solar facility is located at 347 New Scotland South Road.

New Scotland PV, LLC is seeking a use variance and two area variances for the installation of a 5 megawatt ground-mounted solar photovoltaic farm at what is being called 0 (zero) New Scotland Road.

Troy Miller is looking to subdivide roughly 13 acres into 11 lots, his engineer Stephen Walrath told Altamont zoning board members on Tuesday. 

 Bernard Radtke’s court papers argue Thomas Ensslin either knew or “should reasonably have known” that Radtke was the owner of one the area’s largest “commercial hauling, land clearing, and heavy-equipment companies,” and that Radtke had planned to use Ensslin’s property for his business.