As freshman Gabe Zullo is finishing his year-long treatment, junior Jenna Meier is just starting hers.

ALTAMONT — Frederick S. Hout of Altamont, a boilermaker who loved hot rods, died on Tuesday, March 9, 2021, after a long illness. He was 73.

Born in Albany to Frederick and Margaret Hout, he was a graduate of Albany High School and went on to serve in the Army Corps of Engineers from 1966 to 1968.

The bulk of a public hearing on Altamont’s police-reform plan was spent by committee members going over responses to an online survey, which 77 residents had answered. 

GUILDERLAND — Marjorie G. Kotmel, a supportive mother and doting grandmother, died peacefully on Saturday, Feb. 27, 2021, after a short battle with pancreatic cancer. She was 73.

She was born on Sept. 24, 1947 in Endicott, New York, the daughter of the late Sidney E. and Lois Gent.

The local waste-and-recycling hauler, along with another area provider and their shared international parent company, are embroiled in a lawsuit over deceptive business practices with Twin Bridges Waste & Recycling, the current provider of waste-and-recycling services to many Altamont residents

James Bacon, the group’s attorney, on March 1 was responding to Guilderland and Pyramid’s appeals briefs, filed on Jan. 28 and Jan. 25, respectively, both of which included “misstatements of fact and law which are herein corrected,” Bacon wrote in his filing

Kristin Casey, Altamont

Iris Broyde, Guilderland