“We would like to hear about assistant coaches across the board,” said Board President Blanca Gonzalez-Parker. “How were the decisions made? Who has them? Who doesn’t? Is there, in fact, a disparity between male and female teams? That sort of thing.”

“This morning we are awarding over $225,000 to 16 municipalities with a goal and a purpose to enhance and develop city, town, and village-owned parks, playgrounds, and recreational facilities across Albany County,” said Joanne Cunningham, who chairs the county legislature.

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.”

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.

The kiosk, Jeff Perlee said, is “just the first step in a much larger effort to use public-access green space to protect Altamont’s natural and historic character and to make our village the hub of regional hiking and heritage conservation.”

Before antibiotics, 10 to 20 percent of people infected with typhoid fever died of the disease; now, with prompt treatment, the case fatality rate is less than 1 percent.