In March, internationally-owned but locally-operated Robert Wright Disposal began offering a year of free pick-up to customers in Altamont. And now, the hauler has done away with the annual fee — $55,000 — the town of New Scotland was charged to recycle residents’ discarded items. So far this year, the town has paid approximately $24,000 in recycling tipping fees.

The Guilderland Planning Board recently heard Borrego Solar Systems propose a five-megawatt ground-mounted solar facility at 2825 Curry Road, a well-screened-from-the-road 48-acre parcel located in a largely commercial area. 

A letter to the editor in this week’s Enterprise asks to whom Guilderland Democrats are beholden.

Crossgates Mall filed an Article 7 petition against the town in July of last year, seeking a $139 million reduction on its $282.5 million tax assessment.

Guilderland since January has been looking for additional proof from Crossgates Mall that its property “is not income-producing,” a request Guilderland first made in October of last year in its response to the mall’s August 2020 court filing seeking to cleave its $282.5 million assessed value in half.

The Altamont Board of Trustees at its June 1 meeting set an in-person public hearing for July 2o, at 7 p.m., on the more-than-doubling increase in the twice-a-year mandated sewer-plant upgrade charges customers pay.

“I don’t have the exact figures, I think it’s somewhere around $800,000, could be as high as $900,000,” said Guilderland Supervisor Peter Barber of the savings the town saw on a recent $4 million water project.

 The proposed solar array for Dunnsville Road — which initially led to an organized public outcry, inspiring not one but two laws — is now quietly progressing through the approval process.

“I started my career for the village development, which is why I always felt obligated to stay here,” said Altamont Police Chief Todd Pucci, who worked concurrently for 22 years as a full-time officer in Cohoes before retiring last year.

The Guilderland Town Board on Tuesday scheduled a public hearing for its next meeting, on June 15, to amend Local Law 7 of 2017, which established the planned unit development for Pine Bush Senior Living at 24 New Karner Road.