Frank Casey, Guilderland

Dr. Bill Root, Guilderland

The population of Guilderland has more than doubled since the first markers were placed and many residents are not aware of their town’s history.

Nine organizations in the Capital District have received funding to pay for supportive housing to serve older adults, survivors of domestic and gender-based violence, and veterans and chronically homeless families as well as individuals with a mental illness or substance use disorder.

Guilderland on Dec. 6 passed its own law that prohibits clear-cutting of one acre or more unless that was part of an approved permit or site plan — or sustainable forestry practice. Supervisor Peter Barber on Friday said the town’s new law would apply to the Prime Capital Development project but said it would “not add new ammunition” to the regulations already in place.

Jeff Thomas, who owns the post office building on Park Street that backs up to his depot property, said he has been working with the United States Postal Service, which wants to expand the Altamont office, on a plan to build a new post office behind the current one.

The federal Inflation Reduction Act, which was signed into law in August, “had a big sustainability portion,” said Michael Hamor, “and so on-site solar actually makes more financial sense now.”

Donald Stauffer, Albany