Guilderland

Let’s face facts on war in Afghanistan

Charles Rielly, Altamont

Synturf emits chemical toxins

Lynne Strnad, Guilderland

Christ Child Society holds auction

Shirley Unser, Christ Child Society of Albany

GPL will actually be reopening more than 16 months late

Dan Alexander, Guilderland

Photo: Guilderland Football's Aiden Chrysler Given Youth Hero Award

Aiden Chrysler, who plays on the Guilderland varsity football team, was given the Youth Hero Award by the American Legion Auxiliary at Friday Night’s game. Last November, he saved his mother’s life, when she was choking and could not breathe; he performed the Heimlich maneuver.

John A. ‘Jack’ McCullen

John A. ‘Jack’ McCullen

ALTAMONT — “John ‘Jack’ Anthony McCullen of Altamont joined his devoted wife Edna in everlasting peace and love on Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021,” his family wrote in a tribute. He was 90.

Richard Frank Fonda

ALTAMONT — Richard Frank Fonda — a farmer; a veteran; a welder; a printer; a carpenter; and most of all, a family man — died on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2021. He was 96.

Conroy, Drake wed

ALTAMONT — Teri and John Conroy are pleased to announce the marriage of their daughter, Hannah Rose, to Joshua Ryan Drake, son of Michelle Lestage and Dale Drake, on Sept. 10, 2021 at the family farm in Altamont.

A celebratory reception is planned for June 2022.

Gloria Chardeen

ALTAMONT — Gloria Chardeen, a mother and grandmother who had worked as a Guilderland school secretary, died peacefully at home in Altamont on Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021. She was 80.

She was born in Albany to Henry and Edna Bink on Oct. 10, 1940.

Mrs. Chardeen was a member of Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Delmar.

Photos: Demolition Derby at the Altamont Fairgrounds

On a day as clear and bright as Sept. 11, 2001, the wind blows a huge American flag suspended by Westmere and Guilderland fire trucks over the World Trade Center memorial at the Altamont fairgrounds. The memorial includes an actual piece from the Twin Towers. The display was part of a tribute held at the fairgrounds during Saturday’s demolition derby, delayed from Fair Week due to Tropical Storm Henri.

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