Juggling. Ziplines. Fencing. Yoga. Gym class is taught very differently in the Guilderland schools than it was 30 or more years ago.

Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill, earlier this month, that will limit health-insurance companies’ freedom to impose “step-therapy” protocols on their insured patients. The new law will also give doctors a clearer and faster path to appealing those protocols when they are applied.

Lanny Ladouceur, a helicopter pilot shot down in Vietnam in 1970, will have part of a road in Guilderland dedicated to his memory at a ceremony on Jan. 19. His mother, who at 94 is thought to be the oldest Gold Star Mother in Albany County, and the woman who was married to him when he died will both be on hand for the tribute at Town Hall.

It isn’t just the chief of police.

The town’s reorganizational meeting on Tuesday announced a new member on the planning board and the retirement of two long-time town employees.

One of the larger historical homes in Guilderland has been rezoned from single-family residential to business non-retail professional, to help the owners, who have been trying to sell it for years, find a buyer.

There may be three new assisted-living facilities in Guilderland’s future.

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation issued new rules at the beginning of this year for wildlife rehabilitators, drastically limiting their ability to care for injured adult white-tailed deer and placing some — less dramatic — restrictions on their ability to care for orphaned fawns.

The case of James Hockenbury of Guilderland Center, who is charged with a criminal sex act involving a 3-year-old boy he was babysitting, may come to trial in 2017, since Hockenbury rejected a plea deal on Wednesday.

A Guilderland High School teacher who, last Christmas, duped students into donating presents for charity that he then stole is no longer working for the school district.