While Guilderland School Board members are frustrated with the county health department’s policy that quarantines asymptomatic students who may have been exposed to COVID-19, the county’s health commissioner notes the policy is recommended by both the state and the CDC and calls it an “essential strategy to reduce the spread of COVID in schools.”

GUILDERLAND — An early morning fire alarm at Farnsworth Middle School did not close the school on Friday; only the locker rooms were closed.

John B. Haluska, Guilderland

Blanca Gonzalez-Parker, Guilderland

Kevin J. McDonald, Guilderland

Susan Selby, Guilderland

Justin Gartenberg, Guilderland

ALTAMONT — Bruce Alan Sell of Altamont, a religious man with a great love of family, died suddenly at his second home in Las Vegas, Nevada on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2021. He was 73.

“Lisa Van Wie Heiser found eternal peace in the arms of her Lord, on Sunday, Nov. 7, surrounded by her loving family and friends,” her family wrote in a tribute. She was 57.

She was born in Albany on Oct. 12, 1964 to Gaile Carter (née Wood) and Charles F. Van Wie Jr.