GUILDERLAND The school board is examining health-care benefits for district employees, which this year cost $8.2 million or 10.8 percent of the districts $76 million budget.
KNOX Justin T. Landauer pleaded guilty in county court Tuesday to second-degree manslaughter and driving while intoxicated, after a June crash killed a Binghamton professor, Gary Lehmann.
Douglas LaGrange, a Republican, is an eighth-generation Feura Bush dairy farmer. "I’m not a politician...I have no aspirations beyond the town board," he said, going on to add that he’ll be able to "put all that party garbage aside."
GUILDERLAND With a legal challenge still pending, and neighbors still complaining their well water has been contaminated, the village of Altamont moved a step closer to securing a much-needed additional water source on Brandle Road.
GUILDERLAND A man was arrested last week for menacing after, police say, he screamed obscenities at the patrons of a local bar and then paced an adjoining parking lot with a loaded shotgun.