Opinion

We’re not going to apply a harsh term to the four zoning board members who voted against the halal market. Rather, we would encourage them along with the residents who spoke out against the market to get to know their Muslim neighbors, to sample their food, to understand why halal is important to them, much as keeping kosher is important to some of their Jewish neighbors.

Guilderland

“How much would we want to spend on this?” asked the board’s president, Catherine Barber, noting the costs were in the neighborhood of $16,000. “That’s a lot to investigate a Facebook post,” said Barber.

Sports

This past weekend, members of the Guilderland indoor track team competed against other elite runners throughout the country in the New Balance Nationals in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Regional

In the midst of the early spring snow and ice storm on Sunday, Governor Kathy Hochul announced “The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has announced a G4 electromagnetic storm is currently occurring over much of the northern United States, including the State of New York.” NOAA explained on its website that a coronal mass ejection caused by a flare on the Sun on March 23 “arrived at Earth as expected on 24 Mar. Effects are likely to linger but decrease coming into 26 Mar.”

New Scotland

Machines could be seen in the village this past week digging along CSX’s rights-of-way and in the area of the Voorheesville Post Office between its parking lot and the railroad tracks, where a group of trees were felled. 

Hilltowns

As Berne-Knox-Westerlo Superintendent Timothy Mundell laid out the district’s progress toward its next budget while the district waits on lawmakers to finalize a state budget, conversation centered around one of the few things the district can control at this point — whether or not to go ahead with its annual bus purchase.

 

 

 

 

 

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