“At least 5.4 million children live in a home with at least one unlocked and loaded weapon and at least 80 percent of school shooters under the age of 18 aquire their weapons from the home, including the recent Oxford, Michigan shooter, who killed four,” said Conor Webb, president of the Guilderland chapter of March For Our Lives.

GUILDERLAND — The Guilderland Garden Club has elected these officers for 2022:

— President Merril-Lee Lenegar;

— First Vice President Maureen McNamara;

— Second vice President John Haluska;

— Secretaries Donna Mohr and  Linda Miller; and

— Treasurer Kris Vogt.

In talking to Guilderland’s school administrators and to the district’s Recovery Task Force, Superintendent Marie Wiles said they felt that, when there is no longer a mandate from “a higher authority,” Guilderland would change its requirement to this: “We highly recommend masks but we don’t require them.”

Harvey Vlahos, Altamont

Lisa Hart, Westmere

Edgar Tolmie, Altamont

Jeff Orsini,  Boyd Hilton VFW Post 7062 Altamont

Shannon Duerr,  Thacher Nature Center

Mark Grimm, Albany County Legislator

Part of President Joe Biden’s climate-change agenda is protecting 30 percent of United States lands and ocean territories by 2030, known as “30 by 30.” Currently, about 26 percent of the United States’ ocean territories are protected but only about 12 percent of the nation’s land area is protected.