While she said the program is “a great idea,” Robyn Gray went on, “I just want to make sure that we’re going to focus on affordable housing and senior housing and not high-end housing, not even market-rate housing. It should all be for those special needs.” Superintendent Peter Barber responded that the grant programs “are all geared towards workforce housing, affordable housing, senior housing.”

The board voted down Guilderland Live Poultry and Grocery’s request 4 to 1.

While it was the town of Guilderland that was sued by Crossgates, it will be Guilderland schools that bear the brunt of the refund burden. 

Sometimes, when swimming in the Sea of Knowledge, it is necessary to tread water. Rather than jumping to conclusions, we need to have more information. 

Dave Bourque, President, Historic Altamont Inc.

Donald Csaposs, Guilderland

The district has spent $5.7 million to pay tax refunds after court challenges, and drained its reserve for tax certiorari cases. So it made a strategic decision to pay Crossgates Mall, once the most recent tax challenges are decided, not entirely out of the operating budget but rather by borrowing the money and paying off the bond over a decade.

GUILDERLAND — Seema Rivera, the president of Guilderland’s school board, will be moving on to a more powerful board.

She has been named a Regent-Elect of the state’s Third Judicial District, consisting of seven counties: Albany, Schoharie, Rensselaer, Greene, Columbia, Ulster, and Sullivan.