SYRACUSE — On Saturday, Dec. 19, John C. “Jack” Walters — husband, father, and friend — died, awaiting the arrival of his devoted family, at Loretto Nursing Home in Syracuse. He returned there after testing negative from a battle with COVID-19.

Mixed Breed Brewing is a microbrewery founded by Guy Bucey, 36, a veteran and entrepreneur, and four of his friends.

The school district continues to plan for the eventuality that the area will be declared a micro-cluster zone, which requires random COVID-19 testing of students and staff for the schools to remain open. So far, about 75 percent of Guilderland respondents have agreed to be tested.

Guilderland resident Robyn Gray, in a letter to The Enterprise editor this week, wrote of her “dismay, concern, and fear that the town government of Guilderland has gone off the rails in terms of its planning and zoning board of appeals.”

Bill Krant, Guilderland

Mark Yingling, Clifton Park

In 2003, Mayor Kerry Dineen said, a timber specialist was allowed on the  village-owned land in Knox to fell some of its trees, and that the village took in about $60,000 in revenue at the time.

GUILDERLAND — Beginning on Dec. 24, the State Employees Federal Credit Union is converting six of its Capital Region branches, including the one at 2114 Western Ave. in Guilderland, to drive-through only.

“Furloughs were not cost effective even in the future for the library,” Guilderland library trustee Barbara Fraterrigo said she learned. This is because staff put on furlough would be eligible for unemployment and, since the library is self-insured, “You reimburse the state for those funds anyway,” she said.