Westminster Presbyterian Church 📍

Westminster is a congregation deeply committed to building a community whose purpose is to serve Jesus Christ in the city. We see our location as a unique gift. We are situated a block away from the state capitol of New York.

We are located in a diverse and vibrant urban neighborhood. At a time of polarization in government, media and religion, and when public discourse is increasingly shrill and uncivil, Westminster attempts to be a wide tent under which diverse ideas are not only tolerated, but welcome.

Save the Pine Bush has their monthly dinner at the rented-out hall below the church. It is accessed by going to 85 Chesnut Street. There is off-street parking next to the church for church functions and the dinner.

http://www.wpcalbany.org/

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A Tree Museum

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I've been going through old news clippings of Save the Pine Bush and came across this. It's from the Schenectady Daily Gazette in 1989, and all these years later it still seems real timely. 🦋

Wednesday August 5, 2020 — Save the Pine Bush
Map: Green Mountain National Forest North
Map: Hudson River Special Management Area

The Map I Made for Save the Pine Bush – Lupine Festival 2022 and 2023

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Just showcasing some of the more refined maps I’ve made up. This looks really good when printed on color on Arch C-sized paper. I was looking at these maps on my table yesterday, and they are absolutely beautiful. I was pondering getting into the map business, but the cost of printing and shipping really has discouraged me. It’s hard to make the money work unless you can sell multiple copies of any one map you’ve produced.

Map: Alder Bottom Wildlife Management Area
Map: Berrymill Pond Trail From North

South Colonie Bus Garage Proposal

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South Colonie School District has proposed building a bus garage at 100 Broderick Street, the last section of the Village of Colonie that is undeveloped but contiguous to the rest of the Albany Pine Bush. As you might guess, Save the Pine Bush and others are quite concerned about this proposal.

Map: Lake Alice Wildlife Management Area

Second lawsuit filed over Guilderland Planning Board’s approval of Pyramid project | The Altamont Enterprise

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Second lawsuit filed over Guilderland Planning Board’s approval of Pyramid project | The Altamont Enterprise

GUILDERLAND — A week after a judge in Albany County Supreme Court ruled in favor of a group of Westmere residents and a Guilderland gas-station owner who were seeking to stop construction of a 222-unit development on Rapp Road and proposed Costco Wholesale store, a not-for-profit organization has filed a lawsuit over the same projects.

Save the Pine Bush is bringing the suit based on the Guilderland Planning Board’s August adoption of the findings statement for Pyramid’s Rapp Road and Western Avenue projects, as well as the October site-plan approval given to the company’s apartment and townhome development — an approval that was given based on the findings statement.