People charge a Guilderland teen with criminal mischief after they say he blocked a car and then vandalized it, while the female driver sat inside with the engine running.

The new owner of the Old Stone Inn — built in 1773 — doesn’t want a nine-acre solar farm in his front yard. But Guilderland okayed these farms for rural areas as well as industrial areas just a few months ago.

The Guilderland Town Historian first learned that a man had already painted 22 markers when she saw a photo of him posing before a half-painted sign in The Enterprise.

Alicia Rizzo, principal of Lynnwood Elementary School, will be absent for a month for a medical procedure, from Sept. 22 through Oct. 24, she wrote in a Sept. 15 letter to parents.

Veteran science teacher Alan Fiero, who started the popular butterfly station at Farnsworth Middle School and ran it for many years, is worried about the way it has been managed since his resignation.

The Guilderland Public Library has sent out its last printed newsletters. It is now keeping in touch with patrons through email alerts, Facebook, and a big electronic sign out front.

Over the summer, the Guilderland school district found lead — below the allowable threshold — in the kitchens of five of its schools, and repiped all of the kitchens right away, although no remediation was legally required.

The owner of the long-vacant Master Cleaners on Western Avenue has applied to the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation’s Brownfield Cleanup Program.

Guilderland Water and Wastewater Superintendent Timothy McIntyre recently announced that the ban on lawn sprinkling will continue until Albany’s water main break is resolved.

Molly Foote of Guilderland, 9, likes to educate others about the “absence seizures” that come with her form of epilepsy, so that kids who have them can get treatment. But she doesn’t talk about her disease much, otherwise, and most of her friends don’t know she has it.