ALTAMONT — Gary Spencer was a man of few words but the words he spoke or wrote mattered. He chose them carefully. He read widely, collecting first editions of books he loved even when he could ill afford them.

“I’m here tonight,” Rachel Mormino told the Guilderland School Board, “because the school failed my child.”

John McCarthy, Guilderland

Larry Vincent, Assistant Scoutmaster, Troop 50, Guilderland

Edgar V. Tolmie, Altamont

Nancy Cavillones, Member, Lady Dutch Field Hockey Booster Club

The train depot, built in 1864  the center of Knowersville, as Altamont was then called, became an unofficial village hall and meeting place. The station first agent, Henry Hawkins, served as the postmaster for Knowersville and the post office was located in the depot.

GUILDERLAND — BARE Blends, a women-owned, healthy-foods eatery, which moved across Stuyvesant Plaza, is celebrating its new space on Oct. 3 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The Sept. 22 lawsuit was filed by Mattress Express employee Kimberly Blasiak against Pyramid Management Group, a half-dozen of its local LLCs, and Urban Air Adventure Park.

Guilderland Cemetery, formerly known as the Reformed Church Cemetery, was on the original 1794 lease of 43.75 acres from the proprietor of the manor of Rensselaerwyck, Stephen Van Rensselaer, to ministers, elders, and deacons of Reformed Protestant Dutch Church. The cemetery was turned over to the town of Guilderland in 2002 when the Guilderland Cemetery Association could no longer afford to keep it up.