The owners of Pollard Disposal Services of Altamont in a note to customers  said in part, “We are writing this letter with excitement and dismay … It has come time to retire. The waste removal business is ever changing. New regulations and insurance requirements are weighing heavy on us. After looking around, we have decided to sell the waste company to Twin Bridges Waste and Recycling,”

Three months ago, the town of Guilderland asked Crossgates Mall to provide it with an income statement to show it was losing income and was in need of a nearly 50-percent cut in its tax assessment; the statement was never provided. The town has now demanded reams of financial data on what the mall charges its tenants for rent and what those tenants do in annual sales. 

The Voorheesville Central School District on Monday evening notified parents of six new COVID-19 cases that it learned of over the Christmas break.

Guilderland resident Robyn Gray, in a letter to The Enterprise editor this week, wrote of her “dismay, concern, and fear that the town government of Guilderland has gone off the rails in terms of its planning and zoning board of appeals.”

Acting Justice James Ferreira in his Nov. 30 decision stated that the village of Voorheesville’s zoning code was “reasonably related to legitimate government interests,” and that Stewart’s Shops had, in its court filings, “failed to establish that the Zoning Code is arbitrary, capricious, unconstitutional or unlawful.”

In 2003, Mayor Kerry Dineen said, a timber specialist was allowed on the  village-owned land in Knox to fell some of its trees, and that the village took in about $60,000 in revenue at the time.

The day after she accepted the Democrats’ backing for town clerk in 1999, Diane Deschenes went into the office and told the deputy clerk, a Republican, and a friend of hers, that she planned to run against her. 

The issues Guilderland and Pyramid are appealing, according to the court filing, “are whether the court below erred in annulling the Town of Guilderland Planning Board’s site plan approval and SEQRA findings and whether the court below improperly replaced the Board’s discretionary determinations with its own judgments.”

A 2015  United States Supreme Court ruling said that local governments can’t decide how long they allow election signs to be posted because the signs’ messages are protected by the First Amendment. 

Nearly every kick and punch of the fracas was captured by a village of Voorheesville security camera.