GUILDERLAND — At its September meeting, the Guilderland Garden Club installed officers for 2017 to 2019.  The installation was officiated by Elizabeth Walker, second assistant director for District III of the Federated Garden Clubs of New York State.

At its Sept. 12 meeting, the Guilderland School Board voted to affix a notice to the deed for property the school district owns — just north of the football field and including the northern end of the new bus depot — stating that any future construction on the land would involve a risk of vapor intrusion and that, in the event of planned development, the Army Corps of Engineers has offered to investigate and mitigate the risk.

GUILDERLAND — As required by the state, the Guilderland School District is working to reduce the lead found in water in many of its sinks and faucets, Supervisor of Buildings and Grounds Clifford Nooney said Tuesday.

GUILDERLAND — Barry Macken, 66, of Guilderland, pleaded guilty to aggravated driving while intoxicated, a felony, before Judge Thomas A. Breslin in Albany Supreme Court this week.

Bob Bailey, Altamont’s postmaster for the past five years, is retiring after 27 years of service with the post office.

GUILDERLAND — Members of the Northeast Regional Council of Carpenters Local 291 picketed on Sept. 21 in front of the site where Pyramid Management, which owns Crossgates Mall, is building a hotel near the mall on Route 20.

Brenna O'Brien of Altamont is a member of the 2017 women’s cross country team at the State University of New York College at New Paltz.

Guilderland residents were up in arms and out in full force at Tuesday’s town board meeting, asking the board to help them fight the new state-set equalization rate for the town that has seen the rates of some town residents who live in other school districts rise almost 19 percent.

Parents are also urging the board to reconsider their guidelines for class size before the next budget session, to avoid future problems.