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We’re exploring our options and will listen carefully

To the Editor:

We are happy with what we have

To the Editor:

Hi, my name is Micah Tindale and I believe that Altamont Elementary School should not be closed to save money. Altamont Elementary School is a great school and kids look forward to coming here when they graduate from pre-school. I know I was really excited on my first day.

We do a lot of fun events at our school

To the Editor:

I am Ty Santabarbara.  I go to Altamont Elementary School. I believe that we should not shout down any schools like Altamont Elementary, because it will be a longer bus ride to get to a different school and that will waste gas and money.

I hope you don’t have to shut down any school

To the Editor:

Hi, I am Katrina Rucinski. I am a student from Altamont. I think Altamont is one of the best schools in the in the world.

Consider consolidating services

To the Editor:

How about exploring, in a very tentative way, consolidation of services for the state, county, town, and even school districts by having the state and county highway departments contracting to the town to have the highway mowing done by the town?

It takes a village — and we have a village

by James Gaughan

In 1976, the Guilderland School Board of Education considered the possibility of closing the Altamont Elementary School due to declining enrollment and to avoid an increase in the school tax rate.

Here is what Altamont Elementary means to the people who live here

To the Editor:

Altamont has been my home for the past 30 years, and is now the place I plan on raising my son. Superintendent Marie Wiles recently felt it necessary to use her “power” to hire a generously paid consultant to make suggestions to address the fiscal concerns in the Guilderland School District.

AES serves as powerful glue for holding our community together

To the Editor: 

I read with great dismay your article about the possible closing of the Altamont Elementary School.  My husband and I moved to Altamont in 2005, and, although we are relatively new residents, we love our home and value our community here in Altamont. 

Thanks to Tom Chandler who helped a hurt fawn

To the Editor:

The Guilderland Parks Department deserves a big "Thank You!" 

What makes Dr. Seversky’s template cut-and-paste report the only viable answer?

To the Editor:

Let the concerts begin!

To the Editor:

The Altamont Free Library is pleased to invite everyone to our Summer Concert Series.

Once again, we will present six Tuesday-evening concerts in Orsini Park, beginning July 1 and ending Aug. 5. We have put together a nice array of performers that will appeal to a wide audience of all ages.

Closing AES would be tanta-mount to ripping the heart out of one of Guilderland’s finest communities

To the Editor:

My wife, Kristin, and I read with dismay the recent headline concerning the possible closing of Altamont Elementary School.

Thacher was a man of ideas and action

by Timothy J. Albright

John Boyd Thacher was one of the most distinguished and revered Albanians of his day. He was born at Ballston, Saratoga County on Sept. 11, 1847, the elder son of George Hornell and Ursula Jane (Boyd) Thacher. His father married his mother in 1843. She was the daughter of David Boyd, Esq. of Schenectady.

School leaders must weigh possible benefits in closing Altamont Elementary against the deleterious but more intangible effects on our community

To the Editor:

A question

To the Editor:

How much longer are we going to let the National Rifle Association run our country?   

Richard J. Ronconi
Berne

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