As the Guilderland Town Board began its discussion of the 107-unit proposal on Nov. 18, Supervisor Peter Barber said, “I always like to use an analogy to baseball because I think at this step we’re not even in the first inning. This is simply just to accept the application, meaning that we're not approving it.”

The town began to update its two-decade-old plan just before the pandemic, but decided not to proceed until November 2022 because public participation was at the core of the process. 

Before the planning board for a preliminary review on Nov. 12, Albany Country Club is seeking permission to build hundreds of housing units off of Wormer Road.

On Nov. 12, some three dozen residents packed the village fire department’s firehouse on Altamont Road for a public meeting on the fate of the home of Voorheesville’s first mayor. 

Sheriff Apple wrote, “A vehicle attempted to execute a U-turn at an intersection and narrowly averted a fatality as the driver exited the vehicle in a timely manner.”

New Leaf Energy’s latest proposal is for the installation of two five-megawatt, 20,000-kilowatt-hour systems at 37 and 128 Wormer Road, properties owned by Councilman Adam Greenberg. 

April Carbone alleges that the county-owned New Scotland South Road, near its intersection with the town-maintained Game Farm Road, was obstructed by “foliage, brush, shrubs, bushes, trees, debris, bulk,” which she claims hindered “vehicle passage and the traveling public and blocked the view of roads, intersections, signage, conditions, vehicles and hazards," causing her to be “struck by a honda motor vehicle.”

In a Nov. 6 notice filed with the Albany County Supreme Court, Fletcher Road residents Nancy and Jesse Moran claim the town and a number of its individual departments and employees as well a local builder are responsible for damage from flooding that occurred at their home twice in August of last year. 

In a letter to the Enterprise editor this week, Knox resident Catherine Klatt and, separately, members of the Knox Broadband Committee write that the paper’s recent article headlined “$3.2M to bring broadband to last of unserved in Albany County,” wasn’t accurate. 

Superintendent Frank Macri noted that Voorheesville had worked with various law enforcement agencies on the incident, and that he was told the school district’s experience happens “more often than you can imagine.”