The board’s March 28 meeting began with an orchestrated chorus of students and parents pointing out space and safety issues with practice rooms and storage spaces for musical instruments.

Guilderland Superintendent Marie Wiles noted that currently Guilderland is allotted $5,400 for each pre-kindergarten student, “which doesn’t begin to cover the cost for the community-based partners that we have.” She went on, “They feel and rightfully so — and were pleased to continue to work with us — that they can actually do better just by being independent and getting self pay from parents who can afford it.”

John Hargraves, M.D., Guilderland

Shirley Unser, Capital District Christian Women’s Connection

Longtime Altamont village justice Rebecca Morse-Hout declined to seek re-election this year, and no candidate filed a petition to replace her. But barely a week before the March 21 election, Bridget Holohan Scally was OK’d by her employers to run for the position, which required mounting a write-in campaign. 

The Guilderland Planning Board signed off on the proposed site plan for Costco, voting unanimously to send as its recommendation to the zoning board Town Planner Kenneth Kovalchik’s memo on the project