For K-12 students, chronic absenteeism is typically defined as missing at least 10 percent of the school year, for any reason, excused or unexcused. 

Running from Tuesday, Aug. 13, to Sunday, Aug. 18, this year’s Altamont Fair will build on its agricultural foundation to include a comedian magician, races featuring the most-regal of sausaged-shaped dogs, and local grapplers engaged in a squared-circle showdown just off the midway. 

In multiple tax certiorari cases filed this month, eight owners of over 60 properties are asking the Albany County Supreme Court to lower their collective assessment from $43.7 million to $14.2 million.

The company is looking to expand on School Road in order to manufacture larger centrifugal compressors used in major industrial plants. 

Members on July 24 walked through changes made to the draft plan that was first presented to the committee in March.

Some of the board’s conditions for approval appear to address concerns raised by residents during multiple meetings on the proposal, like building permits not being issued until after the village has dredged Fly Creek.

The Altamont Board of Trustees on July 17 passed a resolution confirming it has enough additional potable water to supply the proposed Inns of Altamont; it did not approve the request nor give the hotel the right to access the water. 

At 185 pages, the draft update to Guilderland’s comprehensive plan, per New York State Law, “provides the backbone for the local zoning law.” 

In June, the village of Altamont announced it was awarded $1.4 million for sidewalks, while Voorheesville announced it had received a $10,000 Clean Energy Communities grant from the state, and New Scotland this month accepted a $19,000 parks grant from Albany County. 

Due to space constraints, Atlas Copco has been unable to make the larger compressors stateside, instead having to import them from its plants in Germany.