“Not to sound like the broken record, but I have to bring it up. When, if ever, will we be getting high-speed internet for the six people in the middle of New Scotland South Road,” resident Sharon Boehlke asked the town board during its June 11 meeting.

A 2015 approval from the Guilderland Town Board allows Wolanin Companies to construct nine apartment buildings, a mixed-use office and retail building, and a clubhouse with a swimming pool. To date, two of 11 proposed buildings have been built while 64 of 210 apartments have gone up. Wolanin this week attributed the delays and proposed changes to, among other things, financial hardships due to “skyrocketing prices,” as well crew loss, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Guilderland’s June 17 resolution and Altamont’s bond approval share the same purpose: They are procedural moves that allow the village to seek grant opportunities for the interconnect.

Happy Days Dispensary in Farmingdale, Nassau County, is seeking permission to open a dispensary at 1656 Western Ave. 

A new state policy mandates that each school district adopt its own policy concerning students’ use of personal electronic devices by Aug. 1. 

In a complaint filed on May 27, Roman Tsegelniuk alleges that, on July 25, 2024, he was lawfully working on restoration of the Hilton barn when he “fell from an unsecured, defective, and dangerous scaffold on the premises.”

Costco, via project developer Pyramid Management Group, is seeking an area variance for five signs over 250 square feet each when town code allows for two signs with a total area of 50 square feet.

The Guilderland Zoning Board on June 4 approved the special-use permit application of Kent Hansen to turn the former seminary and recovery center at 1180 Berne-Altamont Road into the Inns of Altamont.  

“Dollar General will be occupying one of the tenant spaces in the building,” Guilderland Town Planner Kenneth Kovalchik told Enterprise by email. “In 2024 the ZBA approved a Special Use Permit to convert the building to a Local Shopping Center use.”

Jeff Thomas was told his proposed Altamont village center development would need multiple variances to gain approval, but he appears to be challenging the parking requirement because, as Thomas sees it, the village’s math is incorrect.