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.

As always, village officials stressed that the numbers presented at Altamont’s first budget workshop of the year are still very preliminary. 

Craig Turnbull, the owner of Bull & Basil Wood Fired Pizza, moved to Voorheesville about a year ago, and has been cooking at various farmers’ markets and breweries in the area ever since. He is now considering the opportunity to turn Bull & Basil into a brick-and-mortar business, he told the Guilderland Planning Board this week.

All four elected village positions face no opposition in the March 16 Altamont election.

Since the plaza is owned by Jeff Thomas the addition would be an amendment to his existing special-use permit on Altamont Corners, not to the owner of Curry Patta, Nadia Raza.