The Albany Pine Bush Preserve is inviting the public to three free summer evening events on Wednesdays, June 14, July 12, and Aug. 16.

The Pine Bush Discovery Center, at 195 New Karner Road, will extend operations until 7:30 p.m. on each of these days during the longer sunlit summer hours.

Doug Smith, Guilderland

A May 23 public hearing on a proposed 11-lot subdivision off of Altamont’s Western Avenue was kept open until the zoning board’s next meeting, currently set for June 28.

Gloria Kirchner Ozimek started her own real-estate business after retiring from a career working in the Guilderland schools and for Albany County.

After an arduous 12-year battle with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, she died on Sunday, June 4, 2023, in Port Charlotte, Florida, where she had lived. She was 78.

GUILDERLAND — For the sixth year, Guilderland is honoring veterans of the armed forces with its Hometown Heroes banner program.

A dedication ceremony, open to the public, will be held on Friday, June 9, at 10 a.m. at Tawasentha Park off of Route 146.

On May 31, a public hearing was held on Pyramid’s requests for $2.2 million in tax exemptions and condemnation of town-owned roads. On Monday, June 5, paperwork was filed in Albany County Supreme Court to stop the project from moving forward.

John B. Haluska, Guilderland Historical Society

Matthew Pinchinat, the district’s director for diversity, equity, and inclusion, presented a chart detailing a “cultural proficiency continuum,” which he said was the “primary tool” used by the district schools to “measure our cultural competence.”