GUILDERLAND — Schoolchildren lined Coons Road on Tuesday afternoon, quietly holding patriotic signs they had made; many placed their hands over their hearts. They were waiting for a hearse.

One winter night decades ago, in the midst of a Christmas concert at the Union College Chapel, the campus suddenly went dark — a power failure. But the concert did not stop. The women of the Thursday Musical Club, dressed in their finest, stood their ground, kept their composure, and never missed a beat.

GUILDERLAND — Three candidates — David Bosworth, Judith Kahn, and Carroll Valachovic — have filed petitions to run for three seats on the library’s board of trustees.

I confess.

My keyboard, I can see as I type this, has food in the cracks between the letters — crumbs from yesterday’s lunch, pieces of popcorn from a midnight snack a few days ago as we put the paper together for publication.

GUILDERLAND — History is being made at Guilderland.

This year, more Guilderland entrants in the state level competition for History Day will proceed to the national level than ever before.

and they shape us

I carry with me, in a backpack that serves as my purse, a tiny inch-high replica of a thatch-roofed African hut. It is a favor from a wedding, which I was honored to attend several years ago.

GUILDERLAND — Henry Rowe Schoolcraft was a 19th-Century glass manufacturer, mineralogist, and ethnologist. His ancestry and accomplishments were chronicled in the 1930s by the late Guilderland historian Arthur B. Gregg, in his Altamont Enterprise columns

GUILDERLAND —The house that sheltered young Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Guilderland’s most famous son, had fallen on hard times.

GUILDERLAND — School district voters will be the first in the county to cast their budget and board ballots electronically.

“We’re going from ancient lever machines to scanatrons,” said school board President Colleen O’Connell at Tuesday’s board meeting.

BOSTON — Saturday night, a thousand people filled the seats at the ornate Jordan Hall, which the Boston Globe reported on its opening in 1903 was “a place of entertainment that European musicians who were present that evening say excels in beauty anything of the kind they ever saw.”