Far fewer police were called to the scene one week ago when an email bomb threat came in to an administrator’s email from a student’s school account. 

At the Wyman Osterhout Community Center in New Salem, used for events and as a polling place, the front entrance has dangerous steps that have been cordoned off.

The fiancée of a young man killed in a wood chipper says he was a one-day laborer, hired to fill in when a tree company was short-handed. 

_{Tim Truscott, Albany}

_{Katy Carl, New Salem Volunteer Fire Department}

_{Timothy J. Albright, Meadowdale}

GUILDERLAND — New York National Guard troops will be giving free disaster preparedness classes at Crossgates Mall on Tuesday, Aug. 11, from 6 to 8 p.m.

_{John C. Overbeck, Guilderland Center}

To the Editor:

The citizens of Guilderland (parents in particular) have always demanded the best for the children, schools, libraries, sports, playgrounds, emergency response, etc., etc.