The Guilderland committee for police reform assembled arrest records according to race and found that a much higher percentage of Blacks than there are Black residents in town were charged. This is largely due to arrests of out-of-town suspects made at Crossgates Mall, according to Police Chief Daniel McNally. The public is encouraged to read the draft and respond.
Since the plaza is owned by Jeff Thomas the addition would be an amendment to his existing special-use permit on Altamont Corners, not to the owner of Curry Patta, Nadia Raza.
The once-swanky motel has been boarded up and vacant since suffering extensive fire damage in 2010. It will be torn down to make way for self-storage units. The Albany County Land Bank announced in December 2019 that it had reached an agreement with Store Away Self Storage to purchase the property for $150,000.
In November 2019, Albany Country Club proposed changing the zoning of 549 acres from Rural Agricultural to Country Hamlet for a 290-unit development consisting of 100 single-family homes, 100 townhomes, and 90 multi-family units.
Color me dumbfounded. In all of the unabashed displays of disregard for resident concerns in the face of development interests, this has to reign supreme.
On Feb. 14, the Guilderland Gymnasts took to the mat for one last time this year in the Suburban Council Championships at World Class Gymnastics in Latham.
Speaking about the white Minneapolis police officer who knelt on a cuffed George Floyd until he was dead, Altamont Police Todd Pucci was unequivocal, “That officer should go to jail; what he did was murder.”
