Melissa Hale-Spencer

Through all these years, since soon after he graduated from Guilderland High School in 1970, Frank Pezze has organized a basketball league for adults. The men recently celebrated their golden anniversary — the celebration was delayed by two years because of the pandemic.

A Tree Preservation Committee will be formed to come up with guidelines on appropriate plants for the town’s parks and rights-of-way along roads, which may also be used as a guide by residents.

A report released on Tuesday by AARP New York found that a lack of affordable and accessible housing in rural areas compounded with a lack of public transportation make it hard for old New Yorkers living in the country to age in place. The housing problem has been made dramatically worse by the pandemic, the study found.

Governor Kathy Hochul said she is keeping in place her Executive Order 4, declaring a statewide disaster emergency due to healthcare staffing shortages, to allow medical professionals from other states to work in New York, and to allow “more professionals to administer vaccinations and tests,” Hochul said.

The state’s workforce rebounded in the second half of the last decade before dropping significantly with the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report released this week by the state’s comptroller, Thomas DiNapoli.

“We are passing a bond but we are not raising taxes,” Commissioner William Kanas stressed, explaining that the district had set aside money each year for repairs to the massive firehouse it built 20 years ago.

The DEC directive became controversial in Guilderland in 2020 when Pyramid, owner of Crossgates Mall, cut trees to make way for a Costco, citing the need to do so to beat the deadline meant to protect the northern long-eared bats while advocates from Save the Pine Bush said the land had not been properly surveyed for the bats.

We at The Altamont Enterprise greatly value the free exchange of ideas on issues important to our community. Our newspaper covers issues in Albany County, New York focusing on the towns of Guilderland, New Scotland, Berne, Knox, Rensselaerville, and Westerlo.

GUILDERLAND — Kevin Efaw was unanimously appointed by the Guilderland Town Board on Nov. 15 to the part-time post of provisional code-enforcement officer.

His wife, Darci Efaw, is the town’s comptroller.

ALBANY COUNTY — Numbers for Albany County are headed in the right direction this week — with infection and hospitalizations rates going down and sales-tax revenues and jobs going up.

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