In talking to Guilderland’s school administrators and to the district’s Recovery Task Force, Superintendent Marie Wiles said they felt that, when there is no longer a mandate from “a higher authority,” Guilderland would change its requirement to this: “We highly recommend masks but we don’t require them.”

Harvey Vlahos, Altamont

Lisa Hart, Westmere

Edgar Tolmie, Altamont

Jeff Orsini,  Boyd Hilton VFW Post 7062 Altamont

Shannon Duerr,  Thacher Nature Center

Mark Grimm, Albany County Legislator

Part of President Joe Biden’s climate-change agenda is protecting 30 percent of United States lands and ocean territories by 2030, known as “30 by 30.” Currently, about 26 percent of the United States’ ocean territories are protected but only about 12 percent of the nation’s land area is protected.

The new station, which supervisor Peter Barber says will be equal distance between the two locations, is to be built near the town-owned golf course, with access to both routes 20 and 146.

A few households are using five or six times the water a typical home would use, Supervisor Peter Barber told the town board at its Feb. 15 meeting. “Everybody else is subsidizing these overages,” he said.