The decision comes after months of multiple site tests, public hearings, and arguments for and against the 120-foot tower.

A lawyer and new town resident, Peck says she is excited to get involved with shaping her community.

Maryanne Overbaugh is the wife Mark Overbaugh, the town’s building inspector and code enforcement officer.

A  newly appointed  member of the seven-member Rensselaerville Planning Board, Laura Bates, was not the first choice of the planning board itself

At its February 24 meeting, the Guilderland planning board heard an appeal by Michael Arduini, who wants to add a seasonal deck at the Across the Street Pub on Western Avenue.

The planning board agreed to waive a public hearing for the Hilton LeVie barn site plan for the barn's foundation. 

In place of the LeVie barn, which has been used to store equipment by the Colonie Country Club, a lower structure is supposed to be built while the historic barn gets a new home.

NEW SCOTLAND  — The town is soliciting résumés for openings on the planning and the zoning boards; due to term-limits enacted in 2011, board members can serve only two five-year terms.

The public hearing was finally closed for a application for a kennel on Unionville-Feura Bush Road in New Scotland, after the board heard from people both in support of and against it.

One kennel was approved on Price Lane with conditions while a second, on Unionville-Feura Bush Road, had the public hearing left open.