A judge affirmed Guilderland’s tax assessment on Crossgates Mall Thursday, a victory worth several million dollars in a decade-old fight over tax rates between the town and the shopping center. The battle will continue in mid-March. Town, school board and mall attorneys have scheduled a court-ordered attempt to settle remaining cases. “We get rid of … GUILDERLAND WINS MALL TAX ASSESSMENT DISPUTE
Tuesday, January 23, 2007 at 7 p.m. Stanford Home Hearing Information Hearing Notes January 23 Hearing Canadians are Coming! Archeological Information Photos – Outdoor Photos – Indoor Bonding Editorial Preservation Donate Contact Tuesday January 23 Public Hearing on special use permit which allows another mall in Niskayuna Dear Friends of Ingersoll/Stanford parklands … Tuesday, January 23, 2007 at 7 p.m.
written by Lynne Jackson << Previous Begin Next>> Read the Developer’s outrageous response to this issue that says "walking or bicycling . . . should be discouraged." Public Health Issues The Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Residence Inn says the following about bicycle and pedestrian access: d. Bicycle Access – Page 19 “There … Save the Pine Bush Comments on Proposed Hotel
Back Below is the proposed site of the Residence Inn proposed to be built on Washington Avenue Ext. Crossgates parking lot and building can be seen at the top of the photo Patch of trees on the left were illegally bulldozed by Crossgates in 1998 and is now flattened land. The Residence Inn is proposed … Developer Responses on Proposed Hotel
written by Lynne Jackson << Previous Begin Next>> Financial & Economic Impacts Employment: The DEIS fails to identify all of the financial impacts of the proposed development. The DEIS indicates there will be both full and part-time employees, but does not show how much the employees will be paid. If employees are paid minimum wage, … Save the Pine Bush Comments on Proposed Hotel
by Lynne Jackson ALBANY: Responding to a motion to dismiss the lawsuit against the City of Albany over the proposed hotel in the Pine Bush, Judge Stephen A. Ferradino ruled in favor of Save the Pine Bush, giving all the plaintiffs standing. Steven Downs brought this case on behalf of Save the Pine Bush. Standing … Developer Responses on Proposed Hotel
Protesters arrive Protesters arrive People wait to cross the street to attend the rally.
<< Previous Begin Next>> Note: The "Comment" is the developer’s summary of the public input, the Response is what the developer says in response. Comment 4: Commentor indicated that walking is a dangerous mode of transportation. No sidewalks are proposed. Employees will not be able to walk to work or use mass transit. Customers will … Developer Responses on Proposed Hotel
The March The March At the first intersection, we could look across the street, and see the marchers returning.
by Lynne Jackson ALBANY: The Final Environmental Impact Statement submitted by the developer for the proposed Residence Inn is so inadequate, it is appalling. The Albany Common Council must reject this document as incomplete. In analyzing this document, it is difficult to choose which area of inadequacy to attack first. Disappearing Letters First, the FEIS … Another Missing Letter
Bush suporters are sparce Bush suporters are sparce in the bleechers across from the anti-war rally
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Save the Pine Bush Newsletter – Unveiling of the Sign for the John Wolcott Pine Bush Hikers’ Underpass The Altamont Enterprise – Wolcott honored with sign at underpass to connect people and wildlife to pine bush (Archived) Senator Pat Fahy on X – “John Wolcott was the Albany Pine Bush Preserve’s most ardent, passionate defender … In the news: The John Wolcott Hiker’s Underpass sign is revealed!
By Madi Kennedy – October 2025 Newsletter In my life, as time marches on everything speeds up so fast that there’s times that I wonder where the meaning in life is. Working, earning, eating, taking care of my family day-by-day, all while living in a world that feels like it’s on fire can lead to … Acts of Service Save Me in a World on Fire: Why Volunteer with Save the Pine Bush?
by Lynne Jackson – October 2025 Newsletter ALBANY: On October 8, 2025, the sign for the John Wolcott Pine Bush Hikers’ Underpass was unveiled at an event organized by NYS Senator Pat Fahy’s office. Chris Hawver, executive director of the Albany Pine Bush Preserve Commission, opened the event by welcoming everyone and noting that if … Unveiling of the Sign for the John Wolcott Pine Bush Hikers’ Underpass
by John Cryan Chaonic Spinout If a chaon gets separated from the spacetime matrix, it dies. This happens often when a chaon reaches the limits of spacetime bound in a photon. Disengaged from its fellow chaons, the photon breaks apart. The individual freed chaons each spin out to infinity, losing all energy, and vanish. They … SUBQUANTUM PHYSICS: Fundamental Chaonic Physics for Creating New Chaonic Maths
By John Cryan James Cameron’s 2009 film Avatar has established and held the global box office record for many years. It resonated with audiences of all ages all over the world, chiefly because it brought to visible life the intricate interconnections of a mythological Gaia. A living planet where nothing happened without affecting everything, and … Our Place in the World
By John Cryan Neutrinos, those tiniest of ‘known’ ‘fundamental’ particles, have lately hogged quite a bit of the news from physics and astronomy. First came the announcement that there is a ‘cosmic neutrino background’ to go along with the cosmic microwave background found earlier. Both are supposed to be actual living leftovers of the original … Neutrinos, Nodal Bias, and Numerical Divination
by John Cryan – August 12, 2021 Scary things happen when you combine Moths of the Past with Top-Down Tectonics Jon Thoreau Scott’s Top-Down Tectonics: The Role of Oceanus and Gaia (2015) explains for the third time in print his Expansion-Contraction Theory, a new theory of plate tectonics Scott derived over thirty years ago. Cryan … Mothtectonics
by John Cryan – February 19, 2022 I’ll start off with the easiest option to dispose of. I’ve read a bit about ongoing efforts to kindle fusion here on Earth. As an energy-producing proposition, they are doomed to fail. The reason is simple: It takes the energy density of sun-sized chaonic gravity to sustain atomic … Energy in the Chaonic Universe: Transforming the Human Economy
By John Cryan – November 11, 2024 As described in the longest of the previous ten white papers presenting implications and extensions of the Chaon-Convolution Theory, entitled Creating New Science Out of the Old (now affectionately known as ‘Big Imps’), the biggest obstacle to doing good science (which is science that lasts, that sticks with … Decoherence: Advancing Science in the Chaonic Age
The Karner Blue Butterfly barely survives along the St Croix River yet made a major comeback in the Albany Pine Bush! by Madeline Kennedy Ontario scientist Laurence Packer described the disappearance of the Karner Blues from his Canadian province which happened after a long hot and dry spell. The butterflies went from having a “large … Is there hope for the Endangered Karner Blue?
by Lynne Jackson COLONIE AND GUILDERLAND – Its spring, so, it is construction season in the Pine Bush. The Town of Colonie has seen a number of proposed warehouses in the Pine Bush. The most recent proposal is 2889 Curry Road, Colonie. Though this parcel is small, about 1.7 acres, it is bounded on the … Proposed Developments in the Pine Bush
by John Cryan Chaonic physics drives every force and process in the Universe. This includes all forms of biological Convolution. And human cultures – which form wherever people come together, then interact, accrete through compound compositing, and decay through many interwoven processes linked to free chaonic action – are subject to the same principles of … Cultural Convolution
By John CryanSeptember 20, 2023 There has been enormous resistance to the idea that we have to drop our global population by one full order of magnitude in order to have even a chance to continue as civilized human beings. This is only natural. It is our deepest wired-in evolutionary survival strategy: Over-reproduction in the … The Convolution Casino: Underpinning the Triangle of Survival
by John Cryan~ June 9, 2023 ~ The Arrow of Time waits for no one. Events are The Triangle of Peace starting to get past this old man in the woods. So I am sending this missive to all of you because it cannot wait until I have more time to think. . . BIOSPHERE … Chaons and Tech: Our Future is Limited
Some Important Implications of the Chaon-Convolution Theory by John Cryan Anyone who has studied the history of science even casually knows science is not magic. It takes hardwork, discipline, organization, persistence, communication, resources, and luck. And students of science are increasingly revealing the human elements, and consequent flaws, of the enterprise – as it was, … Making New Science Emerge from the Old
by Tom Ellis ALBANY, NY: Neil Gifford, longtime Albany Pine Bush Preserve Commission (Commission) Conservation Director, spoke at the May 15, 2024 Save the Pine Bush virtual meeting on the topic of Restoring Pine Bush Ecosystem Health through Management. As always, Neil was a wealth of information on a variety of topics and expressed warm … How is the Pine Bush? The Commission Gives an Update
Tuesday, May 14, 2024 • 10:30 AM to 4:00 PM Push NYS’s Packaging Reduction Act and Bigger Better Bottle Bill Over the Finish Line! Please join the New York is NOT Disposable Coalition to meet with your state representatives in Albany to help get two critical bills — the Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act … New York is Not Disposable • In-Person Rally & Advocacy Day
Recent Court Cases State Employees Federal Credit Union Save the Pine Bush Wins – SEFCU To Move Away, Feb/Mar 02 Avila House Senior Housing, located behind Teresian House on Washington Avenue Extension Save the Pine Bush Sues Over Senior Housing in the Pine Bush – Proposed Project to be built behind Teresian House, Dec 01/Jan … Save the Pine Bush Court Cases & Proposed Developments Index
Coyotes in the Moonlight Coyotes in the Moonlight Response to the Commission’s Final Implementation Guidelines by Lynne Jackson "It was a cold night in January, snow on the ground, full moon, not a creature moving a muscle," began Jerry Mueller, at the January Lasagna Dinner. He had to get out of the house and decided … Coyotes in the Moonlight
by Lynne Jackson Forty-seven years ago, Save the Pine Bush came into being. On February 6, 1978, the Albany City Planning Board scheduled a public hearing on four developments in the Pine Bush: the Dunes, Pinehurst, Pine Circle, and a development by Charles Touhey. However, it snowed that day. It snowed so much that the … Save the Pine Bush Turns 47 Years Old!
A founding member of Save the Pine Bush in 1978, Wolcott was a month shy of his 91st birthday when he passed away Thursday ALBANY — John Wolcott, a passionate long-time defender of preserving the Pine Bush ecosystem, self-proclaimed Albany historian, and thorn in the side of developers and government officials for decades, died this … John Wolcott, passionate advocate for Albany Pine Bush, dies
For Immediate Release: June 27, 2023 For Further Information: Contact Robyn Gray at (518) 727-6841 or Lynne Jackson at (518) 366-7324 Press Advisory – Tuesday, June 27, 6:45 PM Guilderland Coalition for Responsible Growth, Save the Pine Bush, and Mothers Out Front object to tax abatement and donation of roads through eminent domain for Pyramid … Guilderland Coalition for Responsible Growth, Save the Pine Bush, and Mothers Out Front object to tax abatement and donation of roads through eminent domain for Pyramid Corporation
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by Tom Ellis RENSSELAER, NY: Efforts to close the Waste Connections Dunn construction and demolition debris landfill in Rensselaer continue despite little news coverage of the ongoing public health crisis. The dump is located on a hilltop at the end of Partition Street, borders the Rensselaer public school campus, a cemetery, and in between Rensselaer … Efforts to Close the Dunn Dump Continue: All Trucks Enroute to the Dump Violate Traffic Laws
Last year’s Earth Day Lobby Day was a huge success, with over 600 participants and the passage of several of our bills. A coalition of local, state and national environmental groups has once again come together to make this year’s Earth Day Lobby Day the most successful yet. Power in numbers! Join hundreds of activists … Earth Day Lobby Day – April 23, 2001
by John Wolcott Join us on a visit to a forgotten locale at the crossing of Old Karner Road with the AMTRAK tracks. This was bypassed when New Karner Road was built and then after a while the crossing was closed. This place was the location of the railroad stop half way between Albany and … Center, NY/Karner, NY Old Development Never Finished in the Pine Bush
by Tom Ellis ALBANY, NY: Lynne Jackson spoke about current developments in the Pine Bush and Steve Downs about The War on Terror – Twenty Years Later, at the February 23 Save the Pine Bush virtual meeting. After thanking SPB members for their financial contributions to assist one of SPB’s dinner chefs, Adam Baldwin, with … Save the Pine Bush Update and the War on Terror
Meet at: End of Madison Avenue Extension (past the water tower at end of Wash Ave Ext.) For GPS – 98 Madison Avenue Extension, Albany NY 12203 Leader: Andy Arthur • For More Information: 518-281-9873 or andy@andyarthur.org Join us as we go springtime walk on re-routed blue trail along the backside of 40 Karner Road … Spring Hike and Tour – Saturday, May 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
As much as we love solar, the Eden Renewable Solar Project in Colonie is NOT okay. Dear Save the Pine Bush Friends, Please come to the public hearing regarding the proposed Solar Farm in the Pine Bush. I have included links to the documents and maps. Thank you so much, Lynne Jackson For Save the … Curry Road Solar Colonie (Eden Renewables) Proposed on 75-acres of Full Protection Lands
by Tom Ellis ALBANY, NY: Lou Ismay died on October 12. He was 96. One of the great environmental leaders and educators of the last half-century, he pioneered a unique course–the Environmental Forum–at the University at Albany where students chose and worked on important short- and long-term environmental projects that were often handed over to … Save the Pine Bush Loses a Friend – Lou Ismay
ALBANY: Bill Aylward and Gene Messercola spoke at the January vegetarian lasagna dinner at the First Presbyterian Church in Albany. Both Mr. Aylward and Mr. Messercola spoke bout the one important thing Albany County can do for Pine Bush preservation: donate all tax delinquent properties located in the Pine Bush to the Pine Preserve. Tax … Bill Aylward and Gene Messercola
by Lynne Jackson GUILDERLAND, NY: Save the Pine Bush is watching several proposals in the Pine Bush in Guilderland. These include the proposed Pyramid projects, one of which is a Costco with 18 gas pumps. With climate change a critical issue, the Town of Guilderland should not permit the construction of any fossil fuel infrastructure. … Proposed Developments to Watch
By Laura Ferran, Founder of (SEBS) South End Butterfly Sanctuary, Albany NY ALBANY, NY: My mother Nadia Ferran, now age 89, remembers seeing hundreds of monarchs in the 1970’s in our family yard located in the South End of Albany. But when my young children and I came to live in Albany last year, we … Build It And They Will Come: Cousin of Karner Blue Returns To Albany
by Tom Ellis ALBANY, NY: Todd Ommen and Robert O’Connor of the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic (PELC) made a joint zoom presentation at the June 16th Save the Pine Bush dinner. Lynne Jackson hosted the event. Mr. Ommen led off. He is the PELC managing attorney and supervises interns. He began practicing environmental law in … Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic Defends the Pine Bush
As much as we love solar, the Borrego Solar Project in Guilderland is NOT okay. Note: This proposal has been pulled. We are continuing to monitor future development proposals for this property. They will be submitting their site plan review to the Planning Board on Wednesday, September 8 2021. This project is in a full … Curry Road Solar Guilderland (Borrego Solar) Proposed on 48-acres of Full Protection Lands
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At the same Town Board meeting where the Board passed a zoning amendment prohibiting commercial soccer fields in residentially zoned areas, the Town Board heard a presentation by its director of parks about the townÕs own proposed soccer fields in the Pine Bush. The zoning amendment passed by the Town Board specifically prohibits commercial soccer … Town of Guilderland Wants to Build Soccer Fields
Albany County Tax records show that 253 acres of Pine Bush were forever lost to development between 2010 and 2020. Acres in Study Area Acres Developed with a Building * % Acres Preserved ** % Acres Undeveloped or Used for Highways / Landfill *** % 13,005 5,723 44.0% 3,317 25.5% 3,965 30.5% * Acres developed … Development in Albany Pine Bush – 2010 to 2020