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

The planning board agreed to waive a public hearing for the Hilton LeVie barn site plan for the barn's foundation. 

Mark King, executive director, Mohawk Hudson Land Conservancy

Adam Greenberg, Bill Hennessy, New Scotland

Susan Leath, Bethlehem's town historian, has a new book, “Historic Tales of Bethlehem, New York,” that includes church histories, tales of local farms, and segments on the defunct ice industry and blacksmithing.

Pay-Up Week.

This is National Pay Up Week. It began on the 21^st and will end on the 26^th. A number of our friends, in making their rounds and squaring their accounts, have forgotten the editor. But there is still time.

ALTAMONT — The Altamont Archives and Museum will host an exhibit beginning in about April that will highlight several important recent gifts to the collection.

The exhibit is to be called “Given in Trust: Recent Gifts to the Museum Collections.”