Supervisor Peter Barber told The Enterprise this week that, while the spending of the American Rescue Plan funds are to be pandemic related, “You can make up any lost revenue, and provide government services.”

Foreman David Corey said he sets the fees just to balance out the costs and added, “We’re still not really covering our costs.”

The ordeal started on social media and spilled into the real world this week.

B’nai Sholom Reform Congregation in Albany will stream “The Ritchie Boys” as a Veterans Day tribute.

Hellmut Frankenberg, was a Ritchie Boy — a graduate of the Army’s elite military intelligence training program at Camp Ritchie, Maryland.

Guilderland is not unique. Racism is everywhere in our society. That doesn’t mean it should be tolerated. Each of us should work, as the Guilderland schools are, to combat racism. You have to recognize a problem in order to solve it.

We know that, in this era of rising inflation, schools like the rest of us need to be careful with how they manage their money.

We also know that the Guilderland school district just received a clean audit because it does indeed carefully manage the funds with which the public has entrusted it.

Jeff Orsini, Commander VFW Post 7062 Altamont