Between Dec. 29 and Jan 4, the Guilderland schools had 21 new cases of COVID-19, according to an email Superintendent Marie Wiles sent to GCSD Families on Monday evening.

_{Dean Whalen, Altamont Community Tradition Holiday Decorating Committee}

Robyn Gray, Guilderland

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

Jacob Crawford, Chairman, Guilderland Democratic Party

Iris Broyde, Guilderland

Beth Burlingame, Barbara Bidleman, Guilderland

GUILDERLAND — Susan K. DiCamillo “returned to the Lord on Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020,” her family wrote in a tribute. She was 73.

ALTAMONT —  John R. Van Wormer, a father and grandfather who ran his own business, died on Monday, Dec. 28, 2020. He was 75.

He was born in Schenectady to the late Willard and Doris Van Wormer.

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.