“Our hiking friend,” said David Bourque of the planned statue, “will provide an Instagram moment” for walkers completing the Long Path. He also said, “It’s going to cost three times what the kiosk cost.”

The “feels like” reading is supposed to decrease slightly on Tuesday to 107 degrees in Albany, which is still in the “danger” zone where heat cramps or heat exhaustion is likely and heat stroke is possible with physical activity, according to the Weather Service.

“People need to see baby animals and have empathy for animals and a knowledge of where their food comes from,” said Pat Canaday of the Altamont Fair. “It’s an ongoing educational project.”

After 50 minutes of questioning the developer’s agents and the town’s engineer, the board scheduled a public hearing on the proposal for Aug. 19 at 7 p.m. at Guilderland Town Hall. The last hearing on the proposal, in November 2023, lasted two hours. All of the citizens who spoke, many of them neighbors of the proposal, were against it.

Supervisor Peter Barber said the delay is because the Public Employee Relations Board “has possession of the cards and, if a majority of the cards are determined by PERB to be valid, then I will ask the board to voluntarily recognize CSEA.”

“We have to be willing to listen, willing to look hard at ourselves, and willing to continue to try to get better as we go along,” said Superintendent Marie Wiles.

Warm weather will arrive early next week, the Weather Service says, forecasting a heat index for Albany of 98 degrees Fahrenheit on Sunday, 108 degrees on Monday, and 106 degrees on Tuesday.

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NEW SCOTLAND — The New Scotland Historical Association dedicated two markers this week — each one a first.

On Friday, June 13, New Scotland got its only historic marker honoring a woman, Winifred Goldring. She was the first female state paleontologist in the nation and in the world.

As 7,000 soldiers and tanks and Strykers, at a cost of millions of dollars, paraded 1,600 yards down Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C. to Donald Trump’s reviewing stand on his birthday, June 14, a score of Guilderland citizens brandished handmade signs at the corner of routes 20 and 155 as passing drivers honked horns in solidarity.