The district has not requested an estimate on the cost of replacing the courts, Mayberry said, because it is significant enough that it would have to be part of a capital project, approved by voters.

Paarth Sarecha, the student ex-officio board member, raised an issue with the cell-phone ban that had been brought to his attention by art students. “The way these students kind of go through their classes is they take pictures of their art all throughout the process,” he said, adding, “Multiple students came up to me, asking for help.”

“We’ve been notified it’s an issue,” said a school board member. “And so, if we continue to allow usage of these tennis courts, are we leaving ourselves vulnerable?”

“We open the doors every day,” responded the superintendent. “We’re vulnerable every day. So, to a certain degree, the answer is ‘yes’ to that question.”

GUILDERLAND — A Ravena man was killed in a motorcycle crash on Thursday afternoon, Sept. 18.

Police responded to a report of the crash at Relyea and Grant Hill Road at about 12:50 p.m. and found the diver, John E. Michaels, 47, on the ground, unconscious and unresponsive, according to a release from the Guilderland Police.

On Sept. 16, Supervisor Peter Barber told his fellow board members that he felt it was important “to pull the Pine Bush out for special attention.”

The town-wide tax (its town and highway taxes together) would increase from about $1.38 per $1,000 of assessed value to $1.40 per $1,000, up 1.93 percent.

Developers are looking to build a total of 21 single-family homes.

ALTAMONT — Cassidy Zyskowski died on Sept. 10 after a long struggle with breast cancer, leaving behind her son, Hunter, a fourth-grader at Altamont Elementary School.

The president of the Guilderland Fire Department says the new policy to explain on its electronic sign why the American flag outside the firehouse is at half staff became unintentionally controversial.