Current assessment challenges are nowhere near the scale of earlier years in Guilderland. “That’s good news,” said the school board president. “Please tell me when to panic.”

School board members are planning a retreat once the new member is appointed. While board members will be learning from workshops elsewhere, Superintendent Marie Wiles concluded that “learning as a team … is often more powerful.”

Superintendent Marie Wiles said she would work with the district’s leadership team to put together a plan “to engage the community in relatively short order” on the topic of a smartphone ban throughout the school day. 

One Willow Street resident likened his street to the Daytona Speedway while a West Old State resident said she felt like a hostage in her own home.

BETHLEHEM — A woman has been charged with driving while impaired by drugs after she drove over double yellow center lines and crashed into another car, killing that driver, according to Bethlehem Police.

Police responded to the two-car crash near 1463 River Road in Selkirk at about 5:20 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 19.

Among the three residents who submitted written comments and the six residents who spoke at the hearing, only one favored the law as it was first proposed.

“Get outside and get moving,” said Guilderland’s parks director, as $250,000 in State Assembly funds to upgrade two parks in town was announced.

Judy Slack, at age 80, says, “I’ve had a good life.” She has spent that lifetime supporting others — babysitting in her youth, becoming a teacher as a young adult, raising her own three children as she worked for decades as a teaching assistant in the Guilderland schools, and finally serving on the school board for 16 years.

BETHLEHEM — Two men were each charged with four felonies for altering information on checks to steal money, according to a release from the Bethlehem Police.

“There’s some barbershops and dental offices that want to be in the neighborhood,” said developer David Zhang of potential tenants although he stressed discussions were preliminary.