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GUILDERLAND — On the same land where he grew up and his father owned a vegetable farm, Bob Pigliavento, together with his wife, Linda, has run a greenhouse business, offering bedding plants and potted flowers to the public for almost 35 years.

As the town works to define “abandoned” in its law, three properties ravaged by fire remain vacant — a mansion reduced to rubble, a motel that still stands, and the shell of a home.

GUILDERLAND — The Guilderland Food Pantry will hold a celebration Wednesday afternoon, with board and town officials and volunteers, of its recent incorporation as a not-for-profit organization.

SCHENECTADY — Justus Andrew Booze, whom his close friend called “the light in the room when you felt alone,” died Wednesday, May 4, 2016, in a workplace accident in Guilderland. He was 23.

Justus Booze, Guilderland

The fiancée of a young man killed in a wood chipper says he was a one-day laborer, hired to fill in when a tree company was short-handed. 

After 12 weeks of renovations, Market 32 in Hamilton Square in Guilderland opens its doors on April 21.

The town says the property at 7 Ayre Dr. in Guilderland, which was destroyed last January, could be an “attractive nuisance,” or a dangerous site.

At its February 24 meeting, the Guilderland planning board heard an appeal by Michael Arduini, who wants to add a seasonal deck at the Across the Street Pub on Western Avenue.

Keenholts Park in Guilderland was among four Little League fields the Tri-City Valleycats, along with many volunteers, helped refurbish in 24 hours on April 14.

GUILDERLAND — John Hodgson has made a wooden box topped with a sankofa, a traditional African symbol meaning “to return for what was left behind.”

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