KNOX — History is personal for Dennis Barber. He lives in a Civil War-era house on a farm that has been in his family for a century.

The Capital Region, of which Albany County is a part, has the highest COVID-19 infection rate of any of the state’s 10 regions.

Marie Irving’s major reasons for petitioning to restore the CDTA bus route to Voorheesville and Altamont are environmental and for equity for rural and suburban areas. She believes the other regular riders miss the commute as much as she.

GUILDERLAND — Next Tuesday, July 27, the school board here will vote on a $17.4 million capital proposal — school district voters will have their say in the fall — and will also hear how federal funds will be spent.

The plaintiff, a 1974 Guilderland graduate, claims she was sexually abused as a sixth-grader by her teacher, Roderick Buckley. She told The Enterprise it made her lose her trust in teachers. “This action alleges physical, psychological, and emotional injuries suffered as a result of conduct which would constitute a sexual offense on a minor …,” state the papers filed with Albany County Supreme Court.

NEW SCOTLAND — The Heldeberg Workshop at the foot of the escarpment — where generations of kids have had “adventures in learning” on The Land — will now be protected in perpetuity.

On July 9, the workshop finalized a conservation easement with the Mohawk Hudson Land Conservancy.

While the single Albany County death this week from COVID-19 was a sobering reminder that, still, the virus is fatal, most of the numbers — statewide and at the county level — have been encouraging.

“We want to make sure we have as many tools as possible to preserve open space ...,” Guilderland Supervisor Peter Barber told The Enterprise on Tuesday. “There could be people out there who want their land protected.”

“I was really worried because he’d been having seizures,” said Carl Burnham, whose pet pig was missing for most of Thursday.

Last September, the Albany County Legislature voted, 33 to 5, to prohibit the use and sale of sparkling devices defined as ground-based fireworks such as the cylindrical or cone fountains and wooden sparkler/dipped sticks.