GUILDERLAND — On Monday evening, Guilderland High School Principal Michael Piscitelli sent an email to “GHS Families” to say that the school has four new cases of COVID-19.

GUILDERLAND — On Monday evening, Guilderland’s supervisor, Peter Barber, declared the town is under a state of emergency because of a COVID-19 surge.

The Guilderland Central School District is asking parents for permission to test their children for COVID-19 should the state require it.

Donald Csaposs, Guilderland

Judith A. Dineen, Congregational life Committee, Altamont Reformed Church

Lee Jones, Kiwanis Club of Western Turnpike,   Jerry Houser, Guilderland Community Gardens

“It’s like I’m the keeper of their stories,” Cindy Pollard once said of using her Home Front Café as a memory trove for veterans. “They’re important, each and every one of them … For the ground soldiers in the Pacific, it was kill or be killed. They saw such horror, they can’t talk about it … If they do, they’re back there. They smell the smells and have weeks of bad dreams.”

Father Young “spawned a movement,” The Enterprise editorialized in 2014, that eventually treated more than 18,000 people each day at 121 not-for-profit addiction treatment and rehabilitation programs across New York State. 

Beginning on Thursday, Dec. 10, Guilderland students in eighth through 12th grade will learn from home due to staff shortages caused by quarantine requirements.