Update: South Glens Falls Posts Estimated Wilton School Tax Rate for 2026-27
The first town-specific post-vote tax figure is now online for Wilton parcels in the South Glens Falls district.
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Quietly this and Quietly that… Valid User Feedback
A Reader Was Right: Wilton Wire Needed a Tone Check A reader recently pointed out a pattern on Wilton Wire: too many headlines were using words like “quietly” to describe ordinary public actions. That feedback was fair. Town boards meet in public. Agendas and minutes are often posted online. A routine approval, filing, notice, or…
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Wilton Quietly Posted a New Camp Saratoga Group Packet. The Main Camp Page Still Sends Users to the Old One.
A newly exposed Camp Saratoga packet is dated May 26, 2026 and routes applications to the Town Clerk. But the main Camp Saratoga page still links a March 2021 version with different contact information.
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Wilton Quietly Let Manilla Grill Keep Two Temporary Merchants on One Route 9 Lot
Late-posted Planning Board minutes show Wilton again waived its one-temporary-merchant-per-lot rule for Romeo Soriano at 892 Route 9, even as the town is separately rewriting its temporary-merchant law.
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Update: Wilton’s Full May 28 ZBA Agenda Finally Surfaced — and It Includes Two More Items Than the Public First Saw
The town now has a full May 28 Zoning Board of Appeals agenda online, showing two permit-extension matters in addition to the Mavis sign request and the proposed Maple Avenue car wash. But the normal ZBA agenda page still does not show the meeting.
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WWSA Is Warning Residents: No One Should Be Asking to Enter Your Home Without an Appointment
The Wilton Water & Sewer Authority says employees do not request home entry without an appointment, even as technicians are expected to be outside homes and businesses replacing remote meter readers.
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A New Craw Farm South Boundary Tweak Slipped Onto Wilton’s May 20 Planning Board Agenda
Wilton’s May 20 Planning Board agenda includes a complete application to shift the line between two Craw Farm South subdivision lots at 10 and 12 Colleen Court, a small but newly surfaced piece of subdivision housekeeping.
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WWSA’s Newly Posted Minutes Show a Quiet Back-Office Overhaul: Phones, Billing Tech and Accounting Software
The March 17 WWSA draft minutes show the authority ditched Verizon landlines for Vonage after chronic problems, said Tyler will stop supporting its accounting software, and discussed a Red Wing replacement priced around $4,500 plus possible outsourced payroll.
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WWSA Says Forest Grove Is Building Faster Than Expected — and the Payment Schedule Is Being Reworked
Newly posted March 17 WWSA draft minutes show Wilton’s water authority revising the Forest Grove repayment schedule after Belmonte installed more meters than originally projected. Officials say excess interest will now be applied to principal and the special district fee will be
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Wilton Is Finally Bringing the Big Maple Avenue Traffic Promises Back to the Table
The May 20 agenda calls for a status discussion on the 612 and 631 Maple Ave projects and the roadwork once described as necessary to handle their added traffic.
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Another Car Wash Is Now in Wilton’s Maple Avenue Pipeline
A new KNC Touchfree Car Wash proposal at 542 Maple Ave is headed to the Planning Board on May 20 and would also need a recommendation to the ZBA for area variances.
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Forest Grove’s Phase 3 Got Another 90-Day Extension — and the Developer Says Sales Are Ahead of Schedule
Approved Planning Board minutes now show Wilton gave the big Forest Grove subdivision another extension in March while the developer reported strong sales, ongoing deliveries, and clubhouse work starting.
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Update: Stewart’s Maple Avenue Plan Just Got Harder to Track
Wilton’s May 20 agenda breaks the Stewart’s relocation into four linked applications, pulling Adirondack Trust and Walton’s into a broader Maple Avenue parcel reshuffle.
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Wilton Extended a 100-Chicken, 12-Turkey, 10-Pig Permit Again — This Time to 2029
Draft April 23 ZBA minutes show Wilton quietly renewed a long-running livestock special-use permit at 256 Wilton-Gansevoort Road for another three years, continuing a paper trail that began in 2016.
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Wilton Approved a Hoffman Car Wash Overhaul at Exit 15
Draft April 15 Planning Board minutes show Wilton approved a revised site plan for Hoffman Car Wash at 5 Lowes Drive, including quieter vacuums, curb changes and pavement work.
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Wilton Cleared a Three-Lot Split at the Service Center With Zero-Foot Pavement Setbacks
April planning and zoning records show Wilton moved a Ballard-Traver commercial subdivision through both boards with little public pushback, approving pavement and rear-yard relief in the name of cleaner lot lines and better traffic flow.
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Update: Wilton Water & Sewer’s ‘Upcoming Agenda’ Is Still March Four Days Before the May 19 Meeting
Wilton Water & Sewer still says agendas will be posted at least 24 hours ahead, but as of May 15 its main upcoming board-agenda link opens a March PDF and its audit and governance links still open November 2024 files.
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Wilton Quietly Added Fire-Inspection Tracking Software. The Public Record Barely Explains It.
Draft April 2 Town Board minutes show Wilton approved Compliance Engine software for the Building Department to track commercial fire inspections, but the public-facing record gives residents almost no detail on cost, term or rollout.
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Update: Wilton’s Building Department Staffing Picture Got Murkier After We Checked the February Minutes
Town Board minutes show Wilton hired a part-time Building Inspector in February at $35 an hour, yet the town is still advertising two inspection-side jobs while its staff page already lists a current Building Inspector.
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Wilton Quietly Approved a $95,000 Pass-Through in the Klepetar Forest Easement Deal
Draft April 2 Town Board minutes show Wilton formally stepping through a $95,000 payment-and-reimbursement arrangement tied to Saratoga PLAN’s 444-acre Klepetar forest protection project.
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Wilton Floated a $1.5 Million North Road Rebuild — and a Temporary Closure if Nothing Moves
Newly surfaced March 5 draft minutes show Wilton officials saying North Road is beyond routine patching, with a full-depth rebuild estimated at at least $1.5 million and closure on the table if no plan advances.
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Update: WWSA Finally Archived Its May 26 Board Agenda. Its Oversight Trail Still Looks Stuck in Another Decade.
The Wilton Water & Sewer Authority has corrected part of its agenda problem by posting the May 26 board agenda on both the main board page and the archive. But the page still labels it as ‘Upcoming,’ still describes a ‘third Tuesday’ schedule that does not match May 26, and its a
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Update: Wilton’s Hazardous Waste Bid Now Has a June 3 Deadline. It’s Still Not on the Bids Page.
The legal notice now gives a concrete bid deadline and says the collection work will happen on a Saturday in September 2026, but residents still have to find it through Legal Notices rather than a live bid listing.
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Update: Wilton Approves Camp Saratoga Demolition MOU and Limits Town Role to Demolition Work
Final May 7 Town Board minutes show Wilton moved ahead with a memorandum of understanding for the Camp Saratoga building project, with the town providing in-kind demolition and rough grading while the preserve handles construction costs.
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A Gavin Park AED Save Prompted Wilton to Recheck Its Emergency Readiness
Draft April 2 Town Board minutes say bystanders revived a man at Gavin Park with CPR and an on-site AED, pushing officials into a broader discussion about AED coverage, training and Narcan across town facilities.
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Wilton Renewed a One-Deputy Sheriff Deal for $142,523.85
Draft April 2 Town Board minutes now visible on the town site show Wilton approving county law-enforcement coverage for one weekday patrol, with the sheriff retaining flexibility over scheduling.
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Update: Wilton Turned Its May 7 Building-Maintenance Hire Request Into a Public Job Posting — Still Without a Pay Number
A week and a half after Wilton’s comptroller report named a proposed hire at $27.30 an hour, the town posted a Building Maintenance opening that says only that salary is ‘commensurate with experience.’
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Wilton’s ZBA Drew a Line on One Route 9 Sign Package and Bent on Another
Approved March 26 minutes show the board balked at a large medical-center monument sign on Route 9 even as it granted substantial signage relief for BJ’s Gas on Route 50.
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Wilton Is Marketing 2026 Recreation, but Its Public Gavin Park Fee Schedule Still Points Back to 2019-20
The town is promoting ParkFest and summer operations, yet its general public fee pages still promise an update later and its downloadable fee sheet remains dated to 2019-20.
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Wilton Quietly Added a 2025 Development Report and Is Building a More Centralized Growth Portal
The town’s planning pages now point residents to a 2025 annual development report and promote a single online resource center for agenda maps, project maps, and growth records.
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