The town formed a committee to update its comprehensive plan, the village preserved its community traditions but will lose the service of its rescue squad after 86 years, and the school district continued its work to prepare students for a diverse and inclusive world.

“Our hope would be to help them,” Guilderland Supervisor Peter Barber said of the school district, calling it “a bit ironic” that the town would take on the task of preserving school district history.

Originally, Laviano had wanted to convert just the front half of the lot to Local Business, and build two houses in back, but he re-did the application to rezone the entire lot.

Statewide, COVID hospitalizations are far more prevalent than they have been for months. Albany is one of 20 counties labeled with a “medium” rate and, for the first time, seven of New York’s 62 counties are labeled as having a “high” rate of COVID hospitalizations.

The $55 million center would be located on 8.36 acres in the Transit Oriented Development district at 4 Crossgates Mall Road, according to the application for a special-use permit filed with the town by Columbia Development Companies.

Guilderland will strive to maintain an unrestricted fund balance of not less than 15 percent and not more than 35 percent of budgeted appropriations in each of the general, highway, water and sewer funds, the policy says.

“The most interesting section at John Boyd Thacher State Park are the layers in the cliff face that date to the Silurian and Devonian periods,” the National Park Service says, which are collectively referred to as the Middle Paleozoic Era, from 444 to 359 million years ago, a time in the Earth’s history characterized by high sea levels with expansion of marine invertebrates, reef communities, and fish. “This era also marks the emergence of plants and insects on land, and near the end of the Devonian Period, the appearance of four-legged animals.”

He never crushed a car. He treated them as if they had souls.

Governor Kathy Hochul said on Wednesday that she was “very, very sad to report that there have been two pediatric deaths related to flu.” She urged “everyone” to “get their flu shots.”

Projects could come along that would violate “guidelines that we want to put in place,” said Councilwoman Christine Napierski. “So that’s why a moratorium is necessary, to say, ‘Hold it; wait a minute. This is a project that may not be in compliance with our future vision of our town.’”