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School board mullsWould land purchase be wise or wasteful"

GUILDERLAND — The school board will decide March 14 whether the public will vote in May on purchasing a strip of land in front of Guilderland Elementary School.



GUILDERLAND — The school board president, Gene Danese, announced last Tuesday that he will not seek re-election to the board. His announcement came on the heels of a similar declaration from the board’s vice president, Linda Bakst.



GUILDERLAND — The school superintendent has proposed a $79 million district budget for next year — an increase of about $3 million or 4.51 percent over this year.



ALBANY — After months of discussion, a $240 million quarter-century plan for the W. Averill Harriman State Office Campus was unveiled to mixed reactions Tuesday night.





GUILDERLAND — For the past seven years, Russ Craig has been a busy man.





GUILDERLAND -- Developer Philip Battaglino fought the steep slopes of his Brookview Drive property and won the planning board’s concept approval last week.





ALTAMONT—Developer Troy Miller has gotten the go-ahead from the planning board for an eight-unit senior housing complex in the middle of the village.





NEW SCOTLAND — With a state Supreme Court decision pending on the limitation of easement on a private road, Fielding Way, the zoning board is carefully considering a variance for property at the end of that road.





NEW SCOTLAND — A civil lawsuit against the town’s planning board has been dismissed by Supreme Court Justice William E. McCarthy.



BERNE — The Berne Library is moving.

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