Stewart’s Shops’ three variance requests for its Altamont Boulevard expansion project must pass five criteria used by the zoning board.

Developer Armand Quadrini is willing to pay the cost of remediating the polluted site where he hopes to build a residential-and-commercial project called Foundry Village, with 140 apartments and a convenience store with fuel pumps. 

Pyramid Management will pay the Guilderland Police Department the cost of hiring two new officers in exchange for the department’s increasing to full-time two officers’ patrols at Crossgates Mall, paid for by the force itself. The officers who patrol the mall are detectives and paid more than new hires. 

“Suzanne Mary O’Loughlin slipped the surly bonds of Earth and passed away peacefully Tuesday, Feb. 4, at her home after a short illness,” her family wrote in a tribute.

CAMBRIDGE — Jeffrey Allen Herchenroder, a longtime stringed-instrument and orchestra teacher for the Guilderland schools, died unexpectedly on Friday, Feb. 7, 2020.

“He leaves behind a legacy and an enormous hole in the hearts of those who knew him, “ his family wrote in a tribute.

In addition to this stabbing, there have been three brawls at Crossgates Mall over the past two months, with two of them caught on video and widely reported. 

Until litigation against the project resolves, no progress will be made on the question of what the approved Hiawatha Trails project needs to do to meet the state fire code.