Three Guilderland football players

Turf fever leads school board to urge larger capital project

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

The original plan, presented July 1, had been modified to include roughly $770,000 from federal pandemic allocations. This would reduce the annual tax increase from the original $64 for the median $299,000 house in Guilderland to $52. “I think we should ask for more in the capital project …,” said school board member Rebecca Butterfield; several board members agreed.

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The truth will set us free

My brother-in-law, who lives in Vietnam, urgently wants to get vaccinated against COVID-19 — but can’t. Vaccine in Vietnam is hard to come by as it is in many nations around the world.

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Week LXVIII: County COVID rates remain low, in-person meetings resume, moratorium on evictions extended

Throughout the week, Albany County Executive Daniel McCoy has not reported more than four new cases of COVID-19 in any single day. And on Tuesday, for the first time in 10 months, he reported zero new cases. On Wednesday, McCoy announced that the county had marked another milestone with 60 percent of its 307,117 residents fully vaccinated.

Hilltowns

Westerlo Democrats back GOP board candidates

The Westerlo Democratic Committee, in a town where voters skew Democratic, is backing three GOP town board candidates for November.

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Letters to the Editor

We can’t change the past, but we could try to make a better future

Leo Muzzy, Eugene, Oregon

We don’t have to choose between affordable housing and preserving the Pine Bush

Andy Arthur, Volunteer, Save the Pine Bush

Altamont 5K is back and ready to go

Phil Carducci, Race director, Altamont

My dad will be 93

Nancy L. Diederich, Naples, Florida

Look after local veterans and long-time Berne residents first

George Hebert, Cohoes

Proud to acknowledge Mr. Palow’s service

Anita C. Clayton, Berne

Columns

A Glimpse of Guilderland History

Mary Ellen Johnson

The Kushaqua: Colonel Church’s ‘mammoth hostelry’ rises on the shoulder of the Helderbergs

Old Men of the Mountain

John R. Williams

The hills make Helderberg weather uncertain

Back Roads Geology

A couple of ‘Leave-its’: One in Albany County and the other in the Adirondacks

Field Notes

Dennis Sullivan

Is that the ethical choice facing Americans today: political automaton or billiard ball?