The Altamont Planning Board this week got its first chance to offer comment on the new shop Stewart’s is proposing to build in the village.

Police have not received any reports of Donlon having abused any children in Guilderland.

The Altamont Planning Board this week heard an update and kept open public comment about a proposed cell tower to be built on Agawam Lane.

SCHENECTADY — Judith Jenkins Young, who enjoyed the adventure of travel and the pleasure of teaching struggling students to read, died peacefully on Friday, Jan. 18, 2019. She was 80.

In the same way the state is trying to make up for federal-government shortfalls, we believe local government has an important role to play, too.

GUILDERLAND — “On Dec. 15, 1940, Roc’sanna Tresa (née Martelli) Rivers was born in Schenectady, New York to the late Rocco and Mildred Martelli,” wrote Mrs. Rivers’s family in a tribute. “And so began a 78-year-long story of a strong, fiercely stubborn, mischievous, humorous, and all-around marvelous woman.

About 20 residents had gathered at the town hall Monday night for an expected vote by the Industrial Development Agency on the request by Pyramid Management, owner of Crossgates Mall, for two kinds of tax exemptions. The vote was postponed.

One apartment is “uninhabitable,” firefighters say, and residents of three others were being moved to temporary accommodations.

The local board must stand its ground in assessing what is best for the community it serves.