During the Altamont Board of Trustees September meeting, Al Caruso, a Guilderland resident of the senior-living Brandle Meadows condominium complex, came to ask what the village can do about the appliance-damaging manganese in his water supply.
The town-wide tax (its town and highway taxes together) would increase from about $1.38 per $1,000 of assessed value to $1.40 per $1,000, up 1.93 percent.
Altamont’s first Constitution Day, on Sept. 17, attracted many families with children who learned about the nation’s founding document through a variety of crafts and displays.
ALTAMONT — Cassidy Zyskowski died on Sept. 10 after a long struggle with breast cancer, leaving behind her son, Hunter, a fourth-grader at Altamont Elementary School.
The president of the Guilderland Fire Department says the new policy to explain on its electronic sign why the American flag outside the firehouse is at half staff became unintentionally controversial.
Also during its Sept. 10 meeting, the board was informed about a drive-thru restaurant looking to be built on land surrounding the proposed Western Avenue ATM.
On Sept. 2, Charlie Giglio told Altamont trustees that “I do a lot of driving. And I don’t know if it’s my imagination or not, but I think every road except Brandle Road has been repaved.”
The conditional OK was given to Barth Meadows on Aug. 27, and “constitute[s] approval of the proposed subdivision as to the general character and intensity of development,” according to Guilderland Town Planner Kenneth Kovalchik’s board memo.
