At the March 22 meeting of the Guilderland Industrial Development Agency, board members were informed that Airgas USA had declined to accept a $240,000 sales-tax break the company sought and was granted for its three-acre liquid argon gas storage and distribution facility in the Northeastern Industrial Park.

“We’re in that time period between when the ground can be worked on,” said Guilderland Supervisor Peter Barber, before the April 1 deadline after which no trees can be cut. That deadline is set by the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation to protect the northern long-eared bat.

GUILDERLAND — A Guilderland teenager died on Sunday after being injured in a car accident.

Megi Hamza, 18, was a senior at Guilderland High School.

GUILDERLAND — The four track-and-field athletes who were named All Americans at a national competition this month most often used the word “love” — not “pain” or “discipline” — to describe their relationship to their sport.

Judi A. Dineen, Altamont Reformed Church

Carol J. Hamblin and Robert D. Miller; Deborah Danz Bonnie and Jim Schaller; Deborah Dzingle 

“Customer service and best practices are my keywords,” said David Howell, the new technology director for the Guilderland schools. “Those are my buzzwords — to make sure that we are doing things so that the teachers and the staff and the students all feel supported and we’re giving them the tools they need, but doing it in a safe manner.”

GUILDERLAND — At about 4 p.m. last Thursday, the Guilderland school district posted a notice saying, “We have just been advised by the Guilderland Police Department that Raquan Dyson has been released from custody.

Martha Warner Whitney had “no moss growing under her feet,” said her daughter. Always active, she helped others as a nurse and school psychologist and worked to improve Guilderland Center where she’d lived.

She died peacefully on Friday, Dec. 3, 2021, at the Daughters of Sarah Nursing Center in Albany. She was 91.

On Wednesday, attorney for Save the Pine Bush Todd Ommen contended he was before the judges because his “client finds itself dismissed from this case without any court having heard the substance of its claims.”