James Hockenbury — who police say worked in child care for 30 years — was arrested by Guilderland Police on April 19 and charged with a first-degree criminal sexual act, a felony.

GUILDERLAND — The weather may already be very summery, but it will be a few more weeks before town residents can cool off in the pool at Tawasentha Park.

Some state legislators are eager to make it a felony to cruelly kill a wild animal, although a spokesman for the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation said such acts are rare.

GUILDERLAND — A Guilderland mother and her oldest child were arrested on April 21 and charged with endangering the welfare of a child — specifically, the welfare of the family’s younger children.

GUILDERLAND — Jamal Jayed Young, 24, of 118 Porter St., Schenectady, was arrested on April 12 by Guilderland Police Sergeant Carl Duda for public lewdness, a misdemeanor.

GUILDERLAND — The Phillips family would like to reinvent the corner of routes 146 and 158, building a huge complex that would include a 50,400-square-foot indoor sports facility, a gas station with a drive-through restaurant, apartments, corporate offices, and an expanded hardware store.  

Hitmans Towing had been selling off equipment, thinking that a run-in with Knox zoning was going to end the towing business, when it was offered a chance to move to Altamont.

GUILDERLAND — On the same land where he grew up and his father owned a vegetable farm, Bob Pigliavento, together with his wife, Linda, has run a greenhouse business, offering bedding plants and potted flowers to the public for almost 35 years.

As the town works to define “abandoned” in its law, three properties ravaged by fire remain vacant — a mansion reduced to rubble, a motel that still stands, and the shell of a home.

ALTAMONT — Businesses evolve with the times as favorite gathering places in the village have new life.