Discussing the awarding of a contract for design and engineering services for the Voorheesville Quiet Zone during a February meeting of the county legislature’s public works committee, William Reinhardt asked Albany County Commissioner of Public Works Lisa Ramundo if the 18-month term of the contract meant quiet-zone construction would be completed by December 2022; Ramundo responded, “Yes.”

Candidates for the four elected positions in Altamont — mayor, two trustees, and justice — faced no opposition this year.

A proposal currently being reviewed by federal regulators would allow Norfolk Southern the right to use CSX’s rails between Voorheesville and central Massachusetts to move “one” 9,000-foot-long double-stacked “train pair” — a single train, nearly two miles long, traveling to and from Massachusetts — per day.

Among the initiatives noted or announced by Albany County Executive Daniel McCoy during his 10th State of County Address were a study examining the technical feasibility of launching county-wide broadband; the opening of a county mental-health court; a five-point economic recovery plan; and the build-out of safe space for victims of domestic violence. 

The agreement between Crossgates and Guilderland would limit “the review, copying, dissemination, and filing of confidential and/or proprietary documents and information to be produced by either party and their respective counsel.”

The bulk of a public hearing on Altamont’s police-reform plan was spent by committee members going over responses to an online survey, which 77 residents had answered. 

The local waste-and-recycling hauler, along with another area provider and their shared international parent company, are embroiled in a lawsuit over deceptive business practices with Twin Bridges Waste & Recycling, the current provider of waste-and-recycling services to many Altamont residents

The Mohawk Hudson Land Conservancy is looking to preserve approximately 280 acres of land in the town of New Scotland — 40 acres owned by the village of Voorheesville and about 240 acres of the Heldeberg Workshop.

James Bacon, the group’s attorney, on March 1 was responding to Guilderland and Pyramid’s appeals briefs, filed on Jan. 28 and Jan. 25, respectively, both of which included “misstatements of fact and law which are herein corrected,” Bacon wrote in his filing

Altamont Treasurer Catherine Hasbrouck told the board of trustees last year that water-and-sewer rates had to be raised so the village could collect another $100,000 per year for general operations and maintenance.