GUILDERLAND — The Guilderland Garden Club’s initial meeting of 2022 was held on March 14 at the Guilderland Town Hall. The meeting opened with the installation of officers by Elizabeth Walker, the second vice president of the Federated Garden Clubs of New York.

The district’s committee on diversity, equity, and inclusion voted to move forward a resolution to the school board to change Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day, which will be discussed with public comment at a later date. The committee is also working on a land-acknowledgement declaration, which is taking time to research. “They want it to be authentic, to see whose land we’re on,” said board member Kim Blasiak.

The Altamont Board of Trustees will hold a public hearing on next year’s budget on April 5, at 7 p.m., at Village Hall, with adoption likely taking place during the village’s annual reorganizational meeting, also on Tuesday. 

Shirley Unser, New York Capital District Christian Women’s Connection

At the March 22 meeting of the Guilderland Industrial Development Agency, board members were informed that Airgas USA had declined to accept a $240,000 sales-tax break the company sought and was granted for its three-acre liquid argon gas storage and distribution facility in the Northeastern Industrial Park.

“We’re in that time period between when the ground can be worked on,” said Guilderland Supervisor Peter Barber, before the April 1 deadline after which no trees can be cut. That deadline is set by the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation to protect the northern long-eared bat.

GUILDERLAND — A Guilderland teenager died on Sunday after being injured in a car accident.

Megi Hamza, 18, was a senior at Guilderland High School.

GUILDERLAND — The four track-and-field athletes who were named All Americans at a national competition this month most often used the word “love” — not “pain” or “discipline” — to describe their relationship to their sport.

Judi A. Dineen, Altamont Reformed Church

Carol J. Hamblin and Robert D. Miller; Deborah Danz Bonnie and Jim Schaller; Deborah Dzingle