The mall’s parent company, Pyramid Management Group, announced in November that it had secured new financing totaling more than $200 million for Crossgates Mall in Guilderland and Crossgates Commons in the city of Albany. 

Citizens have a responsibility to read, to listen to, to look for, and to embrace news from sources that will widen their perspectives and understanding. After all, since it is the people who hold sovereign power in our democracy, they must not be like King Tigranes and listen only to those with whom they agree. They must not kill the messengers — the journalists who tell the truth.

Pat Canaday, Altamont Fair

Kerry Dineen, Mayor Altamont

“It’s a 70-30 grant,” Dineen said, meaning the village is on the hook for 30 percent of the project’s cost.

“No person or entity shall sell, offer for sale, apply, offer to use biosolids or compost derived from wastewater treatment for residential, agricultural, or commercial purposes and land in the Town,” the law says. For a violation, it implements a fine of not more than $2,000 per day.

In his overview of Guilderland’s athletic programs, Austin was accommodating about the bottom line: While he advocates to meet the needs of burgeoning teams, he said, he understands budget constraints don’t always make his requests obtainable.

GUILDERLAND — In the summer of 2024, three men smashed the front window of an upscale boutique in Stuyvesant Plaza, Lola Saratoga, stealing merchandise; one of those suspects has now been arraigned, according to a Dec.

Since Albany County is no longer helping school districts with elections, Guilderland plans to consolidate from five polling places to three.

The state comptroller found that Guilderland, for the past four years, had not properly allocated sales-tax revenues from the county, to which Guilderland Supervisor Peter Barber responded that the 1965 state law on which the comptroller’s office relies is “grossly out of date.”