In reality, the New Scotland Town Board last month adopted a budget for next year that is up about $515,000 over this year, according to Lisa Boehlke, Supervisor Doug LaGrange’s clerk and bookkeeper. 

Two years after just saying no and 18 months after just saying yes, Guilderland is expecting its first marijuana retail sales shop.

The New Scotland Town Board on Aug. 22 passed a resolution voluntarily recognizing the Civil Service Employees Association as the “exclusive bargaining agent for the purpose of collective bargaining” for about 17 blue-collar workers in New Scotland’s highway, water and sewer, mechanic, transfer station, and parks departments

The Altamont Zoning Board of Appeals on Aug. 22 granted CM Fox Living Solutions LLC approval for four variances that will allow for four keyhole lots to be built off of Schoharie Plank Road West with less road frontage than is called for by code. 

In July 2020, amid the early months of the pandemic, Crossgate Mall’s appraised value was lowered from $470 million to $281 million. This oast March, that number was lowered once again, this time to $167 million.

The Voorheesville School Board approved the rates at a special Aug. 18 meeting. 

Guilderland IDA board members on Aug. 22 approved $2.1 million in sales-tax relief and a $75,000 break on the state’s mortgage-recording tax for Crossgates Releaseco, a Pyramid Management Group LLC. 

Control of Crossgates Mall remains in the hands of Pyramid Management Group.

In a letter from Norfolk Southern Railway to Voorheesville Mayor Rich Straut, the company said site work anticipated to start the week of Aug. 28. 

On Aug. 15, the Guilderland Town Board was due to vote on extending for one year Local Law Number 2 of 2021, which allowed for the construction of 86 affordable senior-housing units amid the Albany Pine Bush.