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Guilderland, with rates locked in till the end of the year, is currently paying 5.6 cents per kilowatt hour. The current rate is about twice that.

A spike in COVID intensity will likely mean a corresponding spike in COVID case counts and percent positivity in the near future, according to Albany County’s health department.

Wesley Hale, who uses medical marijuana to ease his pain, told the Guilderland Town Board on Tuesday, “You could go out in Guilderland in the black market and you could get marijuana.” But, he said, you wouldn’t know if it was safe — it could be laced with fentanyl.

Currently, just 36 percent of children ages 5 to 11 have been fully vaccinated while 73 percent of adolescents aged 12 to 17 have, according to state figures.

During the March 9 New Scotland Town Board meeting, the husband of the owner of the Something Olde Something New shop in Stonewell Plaza said his wife’s shop had flooded in November because of ongoing construction work at the development project to the rear of the plaza.

Jacqulyn Vandenburg said she knows how important it is to pull from “a big bank of people” and so she creates that for the students and community at Lynnwood. “It was important in my life so I want to try to foster that here,” said Vandenburg.

Berne couple Gunner and Melanie laCour, and their neighbor, George Duell, think that lowering the speed limit on their section of Route 443 from 55 miles per hour to 45 will mitigate the pattern of accidents they’ve grown accustomed to witnessing. The New York State Department of Transportation disagrees.