Christine Duffy, Guilderland

An Enterprise compiling of Crossgates’ property-tax payments show the mall is due to save millions of dollars due to successfully lowering its assessed value.

When I was a child in the 1960s, Altamont meant cows and farms, hayfields and apple trees, old houses and open spaces. We had moved from the village mid-decade, but we never really left it. We’d head back to the village at every opportunity — to visit friends, go to church, or often just to “take a ride.”

Supervisor Peter Barber went through a long list of events happening in town near Earth Day, which is on Tuesday, April 22, this year.

Meg Seinberg-Hughes, Altamont

Edgar Tolmie, Altamont

The six-month drive-thru closure resulted in a $400,000 revenue loss,  the company claims, while repair of the pipe and pumping of the accumulating stormwater cost over $1 million. 

 Laviano is naming his newly completed complex on Western Avenue the Joseph J. Laviano Plaza in honor of his father.

Erik Carman, a doctor of physical therapy and founder of Altamont Physical Therapy, has received certification for a program that trains Parkinson’s patients in the kinds of bigger movements that the neurological disease makes difficult.