Carol Waterman, Guilderland

COUNTY BUILDING

NEW SCOTLAND — On Sunday, July 17, at noon, Indian Ladder Farms will be unveiling an historical marker commemorating the farm founded in 1916 by Peter Ten Eyck, a former state commissioner of agriculture and a United States Congressman. The farm and apple orchard is now operated by the fourth generation of Ten Eycks.

George H. Quay Dead

Well Known Rensselaerite Stricken While Addressing State Teachers College Alumni Association at Albany — Former Resident of Knox.

GUILDERLAND — Author and town resident Bruce W. Dearstyne has received a national award for his 2015 book on New York history, “The Spirit of New York: Defining Events in the Empire State’s History.”

ALTAMONT TRIMMED.

DOCTOR WILL RETIRE

GUILDERLAND — John Hodgson has made a wooden box topped with a sankofa, a traditional African symbol meaning “to return for what was left behind.”

Marijo Dougherty, curator, Archives and Collections, Village of Altamont