With 593 ballots cast in the Voorheesville School District budget vote on Tuesday, residents approved next year’s $30.1 million spending plan 76 percent to 24 percent.
Transportation of New Scotland’s senior citizens has been at half capacity for the past three years after it was determined repairing one of the town’s two senior buses would be too expensive.
With its new $16.7 million assessment, the Northeastern Industrial Park will pay about $310,000 in Voorheesville Central School District taxes each year, down from $522,000 in annual tax payments.
Among the items dealt with by the New Scotland Planning Board on May 2 were Meadowdale Winery’s request to move its operation from Guilderland to New Scotland, an application from Indian Ladder Farms to hold a festival this July, a request from Boozy Moo! Ice Cream to move its production facility from Albany to New Salem, a proposed condo project on New Scotland Road, and an already-approved solar project on Altamont Road.
GUILDERLAND — A long-in-the-making proposal for 46 residential units near the town’s center is looking more like a reality after the Guilderland Planning Board’s April 26 meeting.
Pyramid is proposing to build a 163,000-square-foot Costco with an 18-pump gas station, parking for 770 vehicles, and eight electric-vehicle charging stations.
The Guilderland Comprehensive Plan Update Committee recently held its third public meeting, where its members and the public expressed similar concerns about the committee’s ability to run the plan’s update process as it sees fit.
