GUILDERLAND — Changes are underway across the school district to standardize how students with disabilities are given special services.

Award-winning school now needs improvement

GUILDERLAND — A school honored last year with a statewide award for teaching the whole child is now on a list, based on test scores, of schools that need improvement.

School board president write political letter “as a private citizen”

GUILDERLAND — Colleen O’Connell believes that her role as president of the Guilderland School Board does not negate her role as a citizen.

Two Dems win board seats, GOP’s highway super unopposed

KNOX — Both the winners and the losers in the four-way race for two town board seats in Knox said shoe leather was more important than issues.

Conklin breaks barrier

BERNE — In this rural Hilltown where Democrats outnumber Republicans by nearly 3 to 1, Republican Bonnie Conklin, making her first run for office, got the most votes in a four-way race for two town board seats.

Train Station Quilters complete complex samplers, each in her own way

GOP’s Peter Golden challenges Dems’ Bryan Clenahan

GUILDERLAND — Democratic incumbent Bryan M. Clenahan, running on his record, is being challenged by Peter A. Golden on the Republican line in Guilderland’s District 30.

GUILDERLAND — The challenge facing the two score people who met Tuesday at the high school was to find innovative ways to educate kids as funding shrinks.

GUILDERLAND — Houses owned by Pyramid Companies in a neighborhood between Crossgates Mall and Route 20 are being quietly boarded up, causing concern for homeowners.