“I don’t think anybody opposes green energy, but it can’t be in your face, especially a project that big,” said Donna Abbruzzese at her home on Dunnsville Road. 

Gary Kleppel said that swine are “no more or less a potential nuisance” than any other livestock.

Guilderland may soon get its first roundabout. The state’s Department of Transportation will hold a public hearing at Pine Bush Elementary School on Sept. 24 about installing a roundabout at Carman Road and Lydius Street. The old Nedco Pharmacy would be demolished.

The Altamont Board of Trustees asked the court that the case brought against it by a group of residents be dismissed. 

At its September meeting, the Altamont Board of Trustees has a chance to finally lay to rest a problem that has roiled the village, its residents, and Stewart’s Shops for much of 2019. 

A vote on a proposed zoning change in Knox, which would require at least four of the five board members’ approval, is expected to take place at the town board’s September meeting.

Seven residents of Presidential Estates have sued the town’s zoning board of appeals, saying that the approval of the Hiawatha Trails senior independent-living project means they will suffer the “direct harm” of increased wait times to be able to get onto the only road out of their development, State Farm Road. 

Unless local governments can demonstrate raising pigs is a threat to public health and safety, farms in an agricultural district are protected under state law from unreasonable regulations, a state official said.

The lawsuit filed by a group of Altamont residents over the village board’s 2018 rezone of 107-109 Helderberg Ave., has triggered an entire review of Stewart’s application. On Monday, the planning board got its chance to weigh in on the proposal. 

Town Planner Kenneth Kovalchik wants to encourage the development of senior independent-living facilities along Western Avenue, where residents could walk to doctors’ offices, coffee shops, and bus stops.