ALTAMONT — Clinda “Cindy” Ann (née Wellisch) Pollard died peacefully on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024. She was 89. 

“In her early years, Cindy was a teacher’s assistant at Altamont Elementary School,” her family wrote in a tribute. “She was a huge advocate for children with disabilities and helped start the Wildwood School.

In a lawsuit filed Oct. 7, Elliot and Adrienne Haase claim that, in July 2023, heavy flooding occurred in their basement due to unresolved issues in the McKownville stormwater system.

“All our animals are safe,” the center’s director, Taylor Huntley, posted to social media in the midst of the fire. “I was here running lessons when my Barn Manager noticed the fire in our hay storage barn.”

Guilderland Supervisor Peter Barber wrote in a recent memo to the town’s Industrial Development Agency that, “The cause of this flooding is the tremendous amounts of stormwaters from a wide area (about 860 acres) that flow into the Town-owned McKownville Reservoir between Route 20 and Stuyvesant Plaza.” 

One of the reasons Foster thinks Guilderland girls, even those brand new to the sport, will have a shot at success is because, starting this year statewide, girls will wrestle in the Olympic style.

Mark Metro, Guilderland

Democrat Gabriella Romero cruised to victory on Tuesday over Republican Alicia Purdy 15,968 votes to 5,122 to earn her first term in the New York State Assembly.