On Nov. 1, attorneys for the IDA in court documents stated they had filed an acquisition map with the Albany County Clerk’s Office on Oct. 31, vesting the agency title to 4.23 acres of previously-owned town roads within the 16-acre project site.

The demand for emergency response is growing, with a record 6,717 calls answered last year. “We’ve got an aging population,” Guilderland Supervisor Peter Barber said at the ceremony, “and the key was how do we do it right,” he said of establishing a town-run service.

In another month or so, Lipps said, parents will receive notifications on when a school bus is coming to a bus stop and when the bus has left the stop.

“There was considerable enthusiasm shown,” The Enterprise reported the day after the charter meeting, “and the boys all enjoyed the excellent talks given by” a group of local dignitaries. “Considerable enthusiasm” is expected once again as Helderberg Post 977 is due to celebrate its centennial with a formal dinner on Nov. 3. 

“Even the hardest days,” Wiles told The Enterprise this week, “have the priceless payoff of knowing you’re playing a part in changing the trajectory of lives. In a district this size, that’s close to 5,000 lives. I just feel it is honorable, rewarding, good work to do.”

The Altamont Fair will have a holiday lights show put on by Magic of Lights, a private company that produces light shows around the country. Plans to have the event organized by the Police Athletic League, which had put on a holiday lights show for more than two decades and uses the money for charity, fell through.  

Ted Danz, with the Republican and Conservative lines, is facing off against Patricia Fahy, with the Democratic and Working Families lines, to fill the seat that Neil Breslin will vacate at year’s end.

“If you make a venue that big, it’s going to get out of control,”said a Depot Road resident. “And that’s what happened this weekend.”

The project is due back before the zoning board for its December meeting.

GUILDERLAND — One party-goer was stabbed and another was shot, police say, at a music festival in the wee hours of Sunday morning.

A release from the Guilderland Police say events unfolded this way: