Melissa Hale-Spencer

GUILDERLAND — The district is looking at ways to reshape the school day in order to save money.

In a lengthy presentation Tuesday, where school administrators described time as “our most finite resource,” new schedules were proposed for the high school, middle school, and five elementary schools.

GUILDERLAND — McKownville firefighters will be helping their flooded brethren with a boot drive on Saturday.

“We sent a crew to Schoharie after the flood,” said Jim White, president of the McKownville Fire Department.

GUILDERLAND — Guilderland High School has once again been recognized as a Grammy Signature School semi-finalist, based upon the quality and caliber of the music-education program in the school.

Weather changes are happening, get ready to deal with constraints and embrace opportunities

BETHLEHEM — Susan Leath said she “had a moment” when she stood in a Barnes & Noble bookstore, faced with a wall of Arcadia books in the Images of America series, each a compendium of pictures for different communities.

GCSD makes minor shifts in teaching literacy,
bigger shifts in math to meet Common Core standards

Labor, supplies, and food — “Everything is donated,” says Goodrich,
Loaves and Fishes Café hosts a daily miracle with “manna from heaven”

GCSD declares impasse in contract negotiations

GUILDERLAND — The economic downturn that has led large unions of state workers to give up raises in order to keep jobs has stymied talks here between the school district and its teachers’ union.

A dark green Plymouth Voyager used to deliver meals to elderly shut-ins was stolen Monday night from the Senior Services parking area at 20 Rensselaer Street in Albany.

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