When a fighting crowd dispersed from a Crossgates Mall parking lot on Saturday night, Guilderland Police found a 14-year-old boy standing on the sidewalk in front of the Standard Restaurant — with stab wounds to his buttocks.

Louis Fletcher Ismay, an educator, lifelong advocate for social justice, champion of environmental causes, and one of the oldest grassroots activists in New York’s Capital Region, died Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021, at St. Peter’s Hospital in Albany. He was 96.
The cause of death was congestive heart failure.

GUILDERLAND — What began as a path traveled by Native Americans became a plank road for European settlers and now is suburban Guilderland’s major thoroughfare — Route 20.

GUILDERLAND — In a unanimous vote Thursday evening, the town board here adopted  a $38,325,630 budget for next year.

Supervisor Peter Barber, during a virtual public hearing where no one from the public called in, said the budget was “very conservative I think in many ways.”

Mary Beth Bianconi with Delaware Engineering, which is handling the application, explained that the town has three wells. One is used in the summertime when water use peaks in town; the other two wells are unused because they have high levels of iron and manganese.

The Altamont Board of Trustees at its Nov. 3 meeting heard about a number of recent water-main breaks in the village; approved a long-overdue repair project to be sent out to bid; and agreed upon a way to come up with more money to pay off a multi-million-dollar sewer-plant upgrade loan. 

ALTAMONT — Linda A. Lown, a nurse who loved horses, died suddenly on Monday, Oct. 18, at her home in Altamont.