“It’s almost a miracle,” said Pat Canaday, describing the humble origins of human clothing made from animal skins. “Then people learned they could criss-cross threads.”
Running from Tuesday, Aug. 13, to Sunday, Aug. 18, this year’s Altamont Fair will build on its agricultural foundation to include a comedian magician, races featuring the most-regal of sausaged-shaped dogs, and local grapplers engaged in a squared-circle showdown just off the midway.
In multiple tax certiorari cases filed this month, eight owners of over 60 properties are asking the Albany County Supreme Court to lower their collective assessment from $43.7 million to $14.2 million.
In building the solar facility, care was taken not to disturb the land, Carlene Pruitt said. “We have to be very conscious and mindful when it comes to the production or development of projects like this,” she said. “We can’t drill, you know, like pilings into the dirt. So what we do is we use a ballast system — they look kind of like cinder blocks — to hold the racking and the panels on top of the soil so there’s no penetration of the soil whatsoever.”
Some of the board’s conditions for approval appear to address concerns raised by residents during multiple meetings on the proposal, like building permits not being issued until after the village has dredged Fly Creek.
GUILDERLAND — A fast-food restaurant that is relatively unknown in the United States but found in several countries in the Middle East and Africa as well as in India, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Canada, is coming to Guilderland.
The Altamont Board of Trustees on July 17 passed a resolution confirming it has enough additional potable water to supply the proposed Inns of Altamont; it did not approve the request nor give the hotel the right to access the water.
