Last October, the Albany Police Athletic League announced an informal agreement with Albany County and the Altamont Fair to present the show in November 2023 at the fairgrounds. Proceeds from the annual event support PAL programs for local youth.
On Tuesday, Aug. 29, the Berne-Knox-Westerlo Bulldogs girls’ golf team had their first-ever match as an all girls team as they teed off against Guilderland at Western Turnpike Golf Course. Guilderland won by forfeit.
On Friday, Aug. 25, the Guilderland boys’ golf team traveled to Olde Post Road Golf Course to face off against Columbia. The Dutch chipped home a victory, 160 to 183.
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.
For the better part of a decade, Crossgates Mall has been the scene of sporadic violence. Guilderland Police have a substation at the mall, which mostly handles shoplifting arrests.
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.
Guilderland residents will pay $18.62 per $1,000 of assessed value in school taxes this year, which is a 2.3-percent increase over the previous year. When voters went to the polls to pass the $120 million school budget last May, the district had predicted a 2.66-percent increase. Property owners in the other three towns partially covered by the Guilderland school district will have a higher-than-predicted rate.
