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

James Bacon, the group’s attorney, on March 1 was responding to Guilderland and Pyramid’s appeals briefs, filed on Jan. 28 and Jan. 25, respectively, both of which included “misstatements of fact and law which are herein corrected,” Bacon wrote in his filing

Kristin Casey, Altamont

Iris Broyde, Guilderland

Altamont Treasurer Catherine Hasbrouck told the board of trustees last year that water-and-sewer rates had to be raised so the village could collect another $100,000 per year for general operations and maintenance.

As always, village officials stressed that the numbers presented at Altamont’s first budget workshop of the year are still very preliminary. 

Craig Turnbull, the owner of Bull & Basil Wood Fired Pizza, moved to Voorheesville about a year ago, and has been cooking at various farmers’ markets and breweries in the area ever since. He is now considering the opportunity to turn Bull & Basil into a brick-and-mortar business, he told the Guilderland Planning Board this week.

Shirley Unser, Capital District Christian Women’s Connection