The Altamont Enterprise & Albany County Post

09/04/2026

On Sept. 3, the Town of Bethlehem issued an emergency order to vacate the Albany Center for Independent Living.

Located at 141 Rockefeller Road in Delmar, the facility was opened in 1998 by Good Samaritan, part of the Lutheran Care Network, as Kenwood Manor, and is now run by the Emerald Health Care Group, based in New Jersey.

Emerald representatives have said they want to “work cooperatively with the town to address the issues,” Mark Sweeney, Bethlehem’s deputy town attorney, told The Enterprise on Sept. 4.

The issues include structural, electrical, elevator, and mold problems in the two-story building with a floor area of about 31,000 square feet.

Emerald representatives have said they want to “work cooperatively with the town to address the issues,” Mark Sweeney, Bethlehem’s deputy town attorney, told The Enterprise on Sept. 4. The issues include structural, electrical, elevator, and mold problems in the two-story building with a floor...

08/30/2026

Glenn Pulito points to where the car landed Monday morning after being hit by a Berne town truck traveling on Route 156. His house, with shrubbery recently trimmed by the DOT, is in the background.

Read the article at https://altamontenterprise.com/08202026/after-mondays-crash-routes-156-and-252-knox-residents-raise-concerns-about-intersections

08/27/2026

Construction work and rain have pushed back the opening of Voorheesville Elementary School this fall. Read more at https://altamontenterprise.com/08172026/asbestos-and-rain-push-back-voorheesville-elementary-opening

08/25/2026

Scott Abraham has found a new home for a second farmers’ market after he announced on July 3 that his market at the Guilderland library, pictured, would not be opening.

Abraham is opening a market on Aug. 27, on the former College of Saint Rose campus. Abraham has run a market on Saturdays in Washington Park since 2019.

Read more at https://altamontenterprise.com/08252026/pine-hills-farmers-market-opens-thursday

08/24/2026

Looking at increasing costs for ambulance service, waste disposal, highway maintenance, and retirement payments, the Berne Town Board this month resolved to override the state-set levy limit for next year’s budget, which has yet to be developed. Read more at https://altamontenterprise.com/08142026/pains-me-greatly-berne-proposes-piercing-tax-cap

08/21/2026

Guilderland will not extend a water line to New Scotland, which New Scotland’s planning board chairman had said was needed for a proposed battery-energy storage project to proceed.

The proposal on Wormer Road, mere feet from the town line separating Guilderland from New Scotland, pulled Guilderland board members into an ongoing feud over the placement of a storage system at 37 Wormer Road.

The 13.8-acre parcel is located in a residential area and owned by New Scotland Councilman Adam Greenberg. New Leaf Energy’s five-megawatt facility proposal is currently tabled pending the company’s ability to address water access needed for fire protection.

Read more at https://altamontenterprise.com/08202026/why-blank-would-we-do-guilderland-wont-send-water-new-scotland-battery-project

07/14/2026

New Scotland’s battery-energy storage system experiences could be characterized as government efficiency at its best. The town, like it had in 2017 with solar, saw battery-storage facilities were going to be an issue everywhere, and decided to get out in front of it.

06/24/2026

Janet Tweed is the clear winner in the three-way Democratic primary race to represent the largely rural 102nd Assembly District. She will face Republican Marc Molinaro in November.

Tweed, of Delhi, is a physical therapist who serves on the Delhi Village Board. During her campaign, she stressed that she understands health-care needs and is for universal single-payer healthcare as well as a supporter of school-based health care.

Made up of 56 different towns and dominated by GOP enrollment, the 102nd District has been represented by Republican Chris Tague since 2018, but Tague is now running for State Senate.

Molinaro announced in February that he would leave the Trump administration to run for the seat. A former Dutchess County executive, Congressman, and 2024 gubernatorial candidate, Molinaro had served as administrator of the Federal Transit Administration under Trump — and is endorsed by Tague.

— Photo from Janet Tweed

According to unofficial results from the state board of elections, 5,568 Democrats voted in the primary for the 102nd Assembly District and 45 percent of them voted for Janet Tweed. Thomas Boomhower got 27 percent of the vote and Mary Finneran garnered 25 percent.

06/07/2026

The Guilderland and Bethlehem track teams competed on the track at Colonie High School in the Section 2, Class 1 sectional meet. The Guilderland girls won their fourth-straight sectional title, the boys finished fourth with 61 points. Bethlehem girls finished eighth with 26 points, the boys finished 10th with 18 points. [The Enterprise — Michael Koff]

06/06/2026

The Guilderland Town Board voted unanimously to place a short-term halt on anything having to do with the installation of commercial battery energy storage systems as it looks to draft regulations for governing large-scale facilities in town.

The adopted moratorium doesn’t allow for current proposals to continue with the approval process, blocking for now a request from Nexamp Solar to place a five-megawatt BESS facility in the Northeastern Industrial Park.

Read the article at https://altamontenterprise.com/05212026/guilderland-adopts-bess-moratorium