GUILDERLAND Three friends from Guilderland High Schools class of 1997 say that they were glad to have each other as they served in the armed forces in Iraq.
GUILDERLAND Tim Mulchy and Dotty Merza have each been in the real-estate business for 20 years. In that time, they have seen house prices rise, along with the fees charged by real estate agents.
DORMANSVILLE More people turned out to celebrate Frances Swarts birthday than she had candles on her cake. Swart is 95; close to 100 well-wishers celebrated her life on Sunday.
BERNEThe Berne-Knox-Westerlo school budget was voted down by district residents Tuesday by a margin of only 17. Westerlo residents, angry about the closing of their elementary school, may have been the deciding factor in the vote.
Matt Cook BERNEThe Berne Library is out of room. On busy days, pa-trons have to squeeze by each other in the tight spaces between the shelves, "doing the dance," said Jeannette Miller, president of the Friends of the Town of Berne Free Library.
VOORHEESVILLE The school districts $19.3 million budget, an increase of 3.5 percent from this year, passed on Tuesday night, with 58 percent voting for it and 42 percent against it. There were 722 yes votes and 523 no votes.
GUILDERLAND Sean McConaghy, a Farnsworth Middle School health and physical education teacher and the Guilderland High School head coach for varsity lacrosse, was arrested on May 7 for driving while intoxicated.
GUILDERLAND In a year when the town reassessed properties, reflecting soaring values, the only budgets that residents get to vote on for school and library passed by comfortable margins.