CZAC defunct

NEW SCOTLAND — The Commercial Zoning Advisory Committee is now defunct, after three of its five members resigned this week, leaving it without a quorum, but town board members still hope to revise the town’s commercial zoning.

By Jordan J. Michael

GUILDERLAND –– The only person surprised about Don Snyder being a Hall of Fame coach is Don Snyder.

Illustration by Forest Byrd

The city of Albany has an incentive to bring more garbage to the rapidly filling dump on Rapp Road. The incentive is money.  The financially strapped city takes in millions of dollars from landfill users.

By Jordan J. Michael

VOORHEESVILLE –– A decent amount of Voorheesville athletes flocked to the high school’s auditorium on Tuesday night to learn about performance enhancing drugs.

Glass Works Village strolls to re-zone, 4 to 1

GUILDERLAND — Property at the corner of routes 155 and 20 is probably worth at least twice as much as it’s assessed for, claims Republican Councilman Warren Redlich.

By Zach Simeone

BERNE — The town board approved a $2.2 million preliminary budget for 2009 at its Nov. 12 meeting, with no tax increase in next year’s spending plan.

 ALBANY COUNTY — To buy time at the Rapp Road landfill, Albany County municipalities will have to beef up their recycling programs in 2009. 

Artist Will Moses will spend Christmas Eve working a shift on the local rescue squad.

“There’s something kind of unique about going to people’s homes in a time of need for them,” he said.