NEW SCOTLAND — By looking to its past, New Scotland may build a brighter future, Alan Kowlowitz believes.

RENSSELAERVILLE — Tara McCormick-Hostash says she fell in love at age 14.

This was not an ephemeral teenage crush; this was a love that started young and became an all-encompassing passion destined to last a lifetime.

ALBANY COUNTY — On Wednesday, Albany County opened the window for applicants to seek federal pandemic funds from the American Rescue Plan Act.

The Guilderland Town Board, on May 16, asked Laviano many questions before accepting his application, which will now be reviewed by the planning board before the town board, which decides on zoning changes, sees it again.

The emergency order that County Executive Daniel McCoy issued on Tuesday afternoon keeps in place county programs for “previously designated migrant families” but prohibits “foreign municipal programs that burden the County.”

Jake Crawford, a Guilderland Town Board member who chairs Albany County’s Democratic committee, said of the county executive, Daniel McCoy, “I said I wanted the first one in Guilderland and he delivered.”

GUILDERLAND — A helicopter flew overhead and police cars and ambulances were parked in lots outside of Guilderland’s Crossgates Mall on Friday afternoon.

The resources were deployed after a fake emergency call of a shooting in a mall parking lot was made to Guilderland Police at about 12:34 p.m.

The only appointment that engendered discussion was the new attorney, Janet Thayer, and the controversy centered not on her person nor her professionalism but rather on the process used to select her.

After the results were in, Superintendent Marie Wiles told The Enterprise, “I am delighted — in particular for Farnsworth Middle School and their enormous class sizes.”

The retired Guilderland resident has spent a lifetime helping the needy and vulnerable both as part of his career and in volunteer work.