At its Feb. 3 meeting, the town board unanimously authorized issuing requests for proposals for the new scale and also allowed the use of the transfer station’s capital reserve funds to pay for it.

Known as the “Affordable Housing Initiatives Act,” the bill says developers struggle to secure investment for affordable housing in rural and urban areas where it is most needed.

Before highlighting Guilderland’s update of its comprehensive plan and improvements in safety and parks, Barber, in his annual State of the Town address on Tuesday, referenced the town’s support of economic diversity, gender diversity, and cultural and ethnic diversity.

Referencing one of Troop 73’s legendary leaders, the late Howard Coughtry, Jarus said the Scouts were told to “select a site Howard Coughtry would be proud of — that meant looking up to be sure there were no widow-makers overhead.”

“Why I got into kinship care and meeting grandparents raising kids is that my home was really a broken home,” Wallace says in this week’s Enterprise podcast. “My father was an alcoholic, worked on the waterfront. He was a good person but, when he drank, it was a nightmare …. We grew up in a state of toxic stress.”

As part of the district’s response to the discovery of the student’s list this school year, school administrators, mental-health professionals, and staff met to evaluate the situation fully and determine appropriate next steps, Mayberry wrote in his post.

“The problem was that it didn’t reflect what actually happens in nurse-patient interactions,” says Joseph. “That’s when I realized something very important: Most medical training software is static. There’s no real conversation or interaction. So I wanted to change that.”

The $1.7 billion facility is expected to be complete by 2030.

“It was actively snowing for part of the time, but the cold is always a problem,” said Molgard. “Pieces of equipment do freeze up. We were able to get water fairly quickly on the fire but the fire was just too advanced. There wasn’t any real way to save the house.”

After extensive training, Guilderland used its decontamination unit for the first time on Saturday, Jan. 17, during a working structure fire at a local trailer park.