A trade organization that represents the multi-billion dollar Scotch Whisky industry has told a local company, which has yet to sell an ounce of liquor, that it needs to change its name and the names of products it plans to sell. 

Firefighters expect to have a definitive cause of the Sept. 8 spa fire within a couple of days.

Brittany Schaub, Daniel Theobald, and Kevin Swartz have joined Barton & Loguidice, an engineering, planning, environmental, and landscape architecture firm with nine offices across New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland announces the addition of three employees to its Albany office.

The Guilderland Chamber of Commerce reached out recently to businesses in Altamont in an effort to form a village business committee. Michelle Viola-Straight, the chamber’s president, said the chamber is also looking to expand into Voorheesville and the Hilltowns.

The facility is open every day, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., including holidays. 

Restaurants, antique shops, and yoga studios call the hamlet of South Westerlo home. While the glory days when resorts were packed with tourists are gone, a newly formed business association hopes to stay strong.

Owner Tara Camardo Attanasio hopes her formal- and bridal-wear boutique, Azalea, will be as vibrant and long-lasting as the flower it’s named for.

GUILDERLAND — There is no specific target date yet for the opening of the dual-branded Hilton hotel in front of Crossgates Mall yet, said the hotel’s director of sales, Emily Cuda. “We just say ‘fall,’” she said.

“We’re on the cusp of months, so I don’t want to say one and it be the other,” Cuda said.

Dennis Cyr, a Knox resident, recently moved and expanded his business, Mountainview Prosthetics, from a building on his Knox property, down the hill to Altamont’s Maple Avenue in a long-vacant space that was built as the village’s firehouse.