GUILDERLAND — Help support scouting by leaving your deposit cans and bottles out for us on Saturday, Oct. 19. Boy Scouts from St Madeleine Sophie’s Troop 50 will be holding their annual Bottle Drive that day.

ALTAMONT — Freda R. Hartman, the oldest active member of St. John’s Lutheran Church, died peacefully on Sunday, Sept. 29, 2019. She was 96.

She was born to the late William and Elizabeth (née Loechel) Reineck in Albany on Jan. 21, 1923.

ALTAMONT — Irena Altmanova Frinta was ahead of her time in combining her career as an artist with her role as a supportive and loving wife and mother, said her daughter, Dagmar.

Five people are seeking the unpaid school board post. Their job interviews will be conducted in public and broadcast live on TV. 

The Guilderland Planning Board is considering subdivisions of two large parcels of land, one outside Altamont and the other in western Guilderland. 

David Fusco of Colonial Car Wash says modern car-wash technology, which conserves and reclaims water, is already available in Guilderland, at his car wash. David and Sandra Hameroff claimed, in their application for tax breaks, they were entitled to a tax break in part because no such environmentally-friendly technology existed in town.

The civil suit also names as defendants the Albany Diocese and Bishop Howard Hubbard. 

ALTAMONT — Rose M. Martin is remembered by her children as a woman who never had a bad word to say about anyone and who taught them to be kind. 

Mrs. Martin “passed away peacefully on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019, with her loving family by her side,” her family wrote in a tribute. She was 90.