Fifty-five residents packed Village Hall on June 11, 2025, when Village of Albion trustees opened a public hearing on "the consideration of consolidation of the Village into the town" — the question of whether Albion should keep operating as its own municipal government at all. Trustees Riley, Bennett, Gabalski and McMurray carried the vote to open the hearing; the minutes don't record a vote for Mayor Javier. The board went on to let Attorney Weiss speak for two additional minutes and let resident Joe Martillotta address trustees a second time. Residents, according to the minutes, asked why the question was up for consideration, pressed about the next step, and spoke both for and against it. What happened after that isn't in the record assembled here — no closing of the hearing, no vote on consolidation itself, no next hearing date. Eight months earlier, a narrower version of the same word — dissolution — moved through the same board with none of that friction. On Sept. 27, 2024, trustees voted to schedule an Oct. 9 public hearing on dissolving the village's fire department. That hearing opened and closed within two minutes, with no comment recorded. On Oct. 14, trustees adopted Resolution 2024-27, titled "Dissolution of the Village of Albion Fire Department, pursuant to Village Law Section 10-1020". Its duties passed to the Albion Joint Fire District, a new entity the Town of Albion, Town of Gaines and Village of Albion boards had established Aug. 12, 2024, following an Aug. 6 special election; the town-level fire protection districts of Gaines and Albion were separately set to dissolve effective Dec. 31, 2024. The contrast is what this record shows: a specific, legally mapped dissolution — one department, one statute, one replacement structure — passed across three meetings without a single objection on the page. The far larger question of dissolving Albion's village government into the surrounding town drew fifty-five residents and open disagreement, and then goes quiet in the minutes gathered here. It isn't the first time unfinished business over "dissolution" surfaces in Albion's town records. Town Board minutes from 2020 and 2021 return repeatedly to a village dissolution — placed in 2013 by one unidentified board member's account — that had left loose threads years later: a cemetery-staffing question inherited from the old arrangement, three properties still carrying the former village's name on the county deeds, and, in a badly garbled recording, Supervisor Faulkner's recollection of a nine-year water-lease commitment to a fire department that, he said, "was never done." The minutes don't identify which village was dissolved in 2013, and it plainly wasn't the Village of Albion as a whole — that village still had its own mayor, trustees and meetings through 2024 and 2025. Whether those old Town Board loose ends connect to Albion's current question or describe a separate, earlier dissolution entirely, the record here doesn't resolve. Beyond Albion, the word turns up mostly for business that has nothing to do with any village's survival. Orleans County legislators voted in 2021 to dissolve a $39,906.08 telephone-equipment reserve account into the computer-services budget; in 2024 they created a Bicentennial Committee set to dissolve automatically on Dec. 31, 2025; and in 2025 they addressed a federal proposal covering FEMA, one that had prompted suggestions ranging up to "the possibility of agency dissolution". A 2023 legislature debate over how the county splits sales-tax revenue invoked "the dissolution vote a few years back" in the Village of Medina — a reminder that Albion is not the only Orleans County village to have faced the question, though Medina's vote is not detailed further in this record. The one dissolution question still visibly moving through Albion's own government by year's end is smaller than either the fire department or the village itself. With the Historical Preservation Commission down to four of its required seven members, trustees tabled a motion to dissolve it on Sept. 24, 2025, and in December directed the village attorney to prepare a formal dissolution procedure ahead of the board's Jan. 14, 2026 meeting. Whether the bigger question aired before a packed Village Hall in June 2025 comes back before trustees is not addressed in the minutes gathered here.