GUILDERLAND — Robert Blaine Stealey, who embodied the Marine Corps motto Semper Fidelis — Always Faithful, died peacefully on Sunday, Jan. 15, 2023, with his beloved family by his side following his third and valiant battle with non-Hodgkins lymphoma. He was 72.

Of the guns collected in Guilderland on Saturday, Albany County legislator Dustin Reidy said that four or five had scratched-off serial numbers and a handful were illegal. “There was a sawed-off shotgun that was brought in,” Reidy said.

Edgar Tolmie, Altamont

Christine Duffy, Guilderland

“EMS billing reduces the tax subsidy of EMS services …,” says Jay Tyler, director of Guilderland Emergency Medical Services. “While taxes still supply a portion of operational funding, ambulance fees collected from insurance companies mitigate the taxpayer burden.”

Once the new forestry law has some legs under it, with a committee appointed and a forestry plan drawn up and, at the same time, once the planning committee has presented its work to the town board, the rules will be clear to everyone.

“Unfortunately he got caught in the middle of a bad situation,” said Guilderland town planner Kenneth Kovalchik of René Savoie having to halt his logging operation. “As for the operation, the logging roads were in good condition and the log processing areas were organized and well kept.”

“It all goes towards recruitment and retention, which has kind of been a hidden bugaboo of the volunteer fire department for a number of years,” Donald Gaitor, a 50-year volunteer firefighter, told Guilderland Town Board recently