“I think it’s a testament that we want to make sure our town is home to all residents, regardless of income,” said Guilderland Supervisor Peter Barber in his Feb. 7 State of the Town address. “It should not make a difference whether you’re a doctor or a lawyer, we want to make sure the home-care aids, the laborers, the people who do not have the same income have a welcome home in our town.”

GUILDERLAND — On Monday morning, in the second minor school bus accident this month, again no students were injured.

On Feb.13, the Route 41 bus, serving Altamont Elementary School, was hit at the intersection of Route 146 and School Road in Guilderland Center, according to an email sent at 9:30 a.m. to “GCSD Families.”

“Strawberries are sacred to the Mohawks,” Ward Stone told me several years ago. “When somebody dies, they will say, ‘She is eating strawberries now,’ not that she died but that she is eating strawberries.”

Ward Stone is eating strawberries now.

GUILDERLAND — Since the developer planning a large subdivision on the outskirts of Altamont has withdrawn his application, and since a stormwater management plan for logging has been approved, tree-cutting is allowed to resume.

Two Westmere volunteers went through the process that ideally each firefighter would do at the scene of a fire after their work fighting the fire was done.

Symptoms from long COVID can last for years, a recent review says. “With significant proportions of individuals with long COVID unable to return to work, the scale of newly disabled individuals is contributing to labour shortages,” the authors write, adding, “There are currently no validated effective treatments.”

GUILDERLAND — A man has been charged with predatory sexual assault against a child and four counts of first-degree sexual abuse.

ALTAMONT — Jeanette Beatrice Orsini lived by the Golden Rule.

One Thanksgiving, she invited a homeless man to her family’s dinner. She wanted her three sons to learn, even if they didn’t have a lot, they could still give to others, her son John Orsini said.

Guilderland school district residents vote at the elementary school that serves their area. For the May 2022 budget vote, those in the Altamont area had the highest turnout at just 26 percent of eligible voters, followed by Pine Bush at 20 percent, Lynnwood at 19 percent, Guilderland at 17 percent, and Westmere at 14 percent.

GUILDERLAND — By a vote of 8 to 1, the school board here decided on Tuesday to call the federal holiday that falls on Oct. 9 this year solely by the name Indigenous Peoples’ Day.