Until litigation against the project resolves, no progress will be made on the question of what the approved Hiawatha Trails project needs to do to meet the state fire code. 

Retired Guilderland teacher Timothy Horan had been elected vice president of the board last July. 

Pyramid has agreed to convey to the Rapp Road Historical District five properties that it has bought within the district; the properties could be used, it says, to build a cultural center. The district denotes a rare intact neighborhood of homes built by African-Americans who came north from Mississippi during the Great Migration. 

“Jeff was a superior musician who gave everything he had to his students. He was a truly unique man who was passionate about so many things, including his family, students, music, and the world around us,” said Shannon Woodley, band teacher at Lynnwood and Pine Bush elementary schools.

The opposing attorneys disagreed over whether Samuel Groezinger had taken appropriate responsibility. 

Neighbors expressed empathy after hearing from the homeowner’s relatives, but remain concerned about their property values. 

Three minors in a separate U-Haul vehicle — stopped near Exit 24 of the Thruway — have now been arrested. Six minors in a U-Haul that crashed near St. Peter’s Hospital had already been arrested, and one more minor, who Troopers say fled from the crashed U-Haul, was also added to the list of arrests in the case. 

Lee Carman — who had been the lone Republican on the Guilderland Town Board — was ousted in November after serving four years. He will now join the Industrial Development Agency. 

The mall is no less safe than anywhere else, said Curtis Cox, deputy chief of the Guilderland Police, “with our presence and with the security presence, and with all the different initiatives we’re doing.” He added that he hopes people will not stay away from the mall because of a few incidents. “We’d hate to see people discouraged,” he said. 

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has estimated the cost of remediating the brownfield site at more than $2.4 million.