Guilderland

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.  

Marina Bayly, Altamont

Craig Bousquet, Guilderland

Christine Duffy, Guilderland

“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.”

Only one citizen spoke at the public hearing and all five board members were uniformly enthusiastic about the project, citing the need for affordable and workforce housing in town.

Edgar Tolmie, Altamont

With bells on their shins and scarves in their hands, the Pokingbrook Morris Dancers performed at Altamont’s Orsini Park on Wednesday evening, Jane 4. “Morris,” the dancers say, refers to traditional display dance forms from England that parallels Irish Step Dancing and Scottish Highland Dancing, although those styles don’t have the association with the seasons and with agriculture that Morris has.

Jason Kenyon called The Enterprise because of concerns about losing his home but the story he told was about more than that — it was about how two friends on a warm April night got into a fight leading to dire consequences.

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