Nadia Raza, the owner of Curry Patta, would still have to come back before the Altamont Planning Board for an amendment to her permit to allow for outdoor entertainment at her restaurant as well as to enlarge the Pakastani eatery into the new addition. 

The last day for Laura Schmitz, principal of Clayton A. Bouton High School for the past six years, will be April 16. 

Before coming to Voorheesville, Southard worked for 13 years in the 333-student DeRuyter Central School District in Madison County, about 33 miles southeast of Syracuse; he had worked for Syracuse schools for four years prior to DeRuyter.

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