GUILDERLAND — The day after the state settled on its final budget, with a much-ballyhooed $1.1 billion increase in aid to education, the school board here faced a hard reality: Not much had changed.

St. John’s Lutheran Church at 140 Maple Ave., in Altamont has the following schedule for Sunday, April 6: 

— 8:30 a.m. there will be an informal worship including modern and ethnic hymns plus a discussion of the format for the sermon; and

Regardless of what the weather looks like outside, it really is spring. At least, according to the calendar it is.

“It’s important to remember that the traffic study was commissioned by, and for, the applicant,” said Bryan Clenahan, a county legislator who lives near the proposed luxury-apartment project, and opposes it. “It was also based on a prior plan and is therefore now irrelevant.”

GUILDERLAND — The town’s senior services will get a new home soon, on Frenchs Mill Road, at the site of the old Bavarian Chalet.

Peter Kilmer failed multiple field sobriety tests, and was taken into custody, where he registered a blood alcohol content of .17, the release said.

Kyle Pianowski was removed from his car, and a search of the vehicle revealed that he had four envelopes of heroin, 10 hydrocodone pills, and a hypodermic needle in his possession; tests at the station determined Pianowski was under the influence of heroin, said the report.

Many families have rich and poor members, meaning that many parents have kids who are struggling, and kids who are doing well.

So, when Ma and Pa make their will, it would make sense to leave a bigger slice of what’s left to the poor one. But that’s not how we do things.