GUILDERLAND — Nurses Gertrude Hutchinson and Debra Wolff hope their display at the Guilderland Public Library this month will help encourage others to pursue nursing as a career.

The Bridge Center, an all-male residential facility that focuses on intensive rehabilitation for alcoholics and drug addicts, brought a group of 15 men to Ed Frank’s Choices 301 center in Altamont last week.

“I was a fix-it guy and I couldn’t fix this one,” Ed Frank once told us. He was talking about the death of his son from cancer at age 45. “Grief affects people in a lot of different ways.”

GUILDERLAND — At a time when local unions are voicing concern over Governor Mario Cuomo’s 2012 budget proposal, the town has already approved contracts for its Civil Service Employees Association units.

GUILDERLAND — A new sign proposal for Stuyvesant Plaza has the McKownville Improvement Association up in arms.

GUILDERLAND — Simone, a delicate wisp of a girl, nestled in the arms of a teenage volunteer and watched a plastic ball roll across the floor. Inside were the ingredients to make ice cream.

GUILDERLAND — On the evening of Dec. 28, two men were arrested at Crossgates Mall for assaulting two victims using several different weapons, including a baton, a pocket knife, and a pair of nunchuks.

GUILDERLAND — A new sign proposal for Stuyvesant Plaza has the McKownville Improvement Association up in arms.

GUILDERLAND — Simone, a delicate wisp of a girl, nestled in the arms of a teenage volunteer and watched a plastic ball roll across the floor. Inside were the ingredients to make ice cream.

GUILDERLAND — On the evening of Dec. 28, two men were arrested at Crossgates Mall for assaulting two victims using several different weapons, including a baton, a pocket knife, and a pair of nunchuks.