In her Jan. 3 ruling, Justice Margaret Walsh lowered from $72.8 million to $43.2 million the collective assessed values of five parcels in the Northeastern Industrial Park. The town of Guilderland is challenging the decision. 

Bruce W. Dearstyne, Westmere

Andrew Genovese, Guilderland

A Guilderland man was told by a fast-food worker after he left a credit-card tip that the money goes to the restaurant owners, not workers, bringing up questions about tipping in the modern age. 

GUILDERLAND — Arrests in December and again in January led to a Feb. 21 arrest of a Guilderland man for three felonies: two counts of predatory sexual assault against a child, four counts of first-degree rape, and four counts of first degree sexual abuse.

John Brower, Summerville, South Carolina

We understand that a school’s business practices committee is charged with counting costs. But we believe calculations would show that, if the fire departments in Guilderland went the way of the ambulance service where paid professionals replaced volunteers, the taxpayers, all of them, would bear a greater burden than for the first-responders’ break.

The new anti-hate policy, said Nathan Sabourin, would “touch on virtually every aspect of the district.” He went on, “It is not going to be simply aspirational. It is going to have, for lack of a better term, teeth, and guidance. And it’ll be not just a policy, it will be a regulation within the district.”

It was reported on Feb. 17 that the parent company of Crossgates Mall was facing an “imminent monetary default” on loans totaling $157 million.