Governor appoints Melanie laCour to Berne Town Board, ending crisis

Melanie laCour, who had been one of the Berne Democratic Committee’s recommended appointees to the governor, is an attorney with experience in municipal law, according to a spokesperson for the governor.

Opinion

Discipline should not mean disconnection for students

A school should be a place where a child can make a mistake, be corrected, take responsibility for that mistake, learn from it, and carry on with his life. The health and safety not just of individual students but of our society as a whole depends on it.

Guilderland

‘It’s a work in progress’: Foundry Square allowed to proceed

The board weighed the trade-off between the developer’s commitment to clean up the site and to improve a dangerous intersection against the concerns over increased traffic and the inappropriateness of a four-story complex in a suburban part of town.

Sports

Photos: Bulldogs Compete Strong Against Section 2

On Sunday, Jan. 12, the Berne-Knox-Westerlo indoor track traveled to Springfield College to compete in the seventh annual Ed Cepiel Springfield invitational. The boys finished in sixth with 39 points and the girls in 26th with seven.

Regional

Mixed use should replace parking lots on Harriman Campus near Wadsworth Lab, bill backers say

“We’re selling ourselves short by just going to add more parking,” said Senator Patricia Fahy, as she gestured to the parking lot around her. The “multiplier effect” of investment in the Wadsworth Public Health Laboratory project, she said, could be “limitless.”