The question we face, as a society, is: Should the government provide needed childcare in the form of public schooling?

The Albany Diocese has told The Enterprise that, following an unannounced state visit on Jan. 12, noted violations have largely been remedied.

Jill Harbeck, Altamont

GUILDERLAND — A group of youths were spray-painting racial slurs on a Western Avenue sidewalk near Venezio Avenue last Sunday evening, Aug. 25, according to a release from the Guilderland Police.

Current assessment challenges are nowhere near the scale of earlier years in Guilderland. “That’s good news,” said the school board president. “Please tell me when to panic.”

School board members are planning a retreat once the new member is appointed. While board members will be learning from workshops elsewhere, Superintendent Marie Wiles concluded that “learning as a team … is often more powerful.”

Superintendent Marie Wiles said she would work with the district’s leadership team to put together a plan “to engage the community in relatively short order” on the topic of a smartphone ban throughout the school day. 

On Aug. 6, a lawsuit filed by Pine Bush Senior Living LLC — which had planned to develop 86 units of affordable senior housing on New Karner Road amid the Albany Pine Bush — asked the court to officially terminate a purchase and sales agreement it had with Pine Bush Parc LLC for 51 acres at 20, 22, and 24 New Karner Road.