By Zach Simeone

GUILDERLAND — The Guilderland School District has 12 bargaining units, listed here from the largest to the smallest:

GUILDERLAND — “I know there are a lot of people…who are afraid of this year’s budget,” the school board president, Richard Weisz, said at the close of Tuesday’s board meeting, during which board members stated their priorities for the 2011-12 budget.

GTA and school administrators plan to work collaboratively

GUILDERLAND — The contract for the district’s biggest union — the Guilderland Teachers’ Association — expires at the end of June.

By Zach Simeone

KNOX — The town supervisor proposes a $2.06-million budget for next year, cutting about $60,000 from this year’s budget, and he said this week that he expects revenue from county sales tax to begin increasing in the near future.

AWOL soldier discovered by Dewey’s Diner owner

ALTAMONT — Gordon Dewey was born into the diner business. But, in all of his decades of sharing stories with customers, the return of the AWOL soldier has become a favorite.

By Jordan J. Michael

R’ville board mulls $2.2M budget proposal for next year

By Zach Simeone

BERNE — Kenneth Bunzey, a Democrat who has served as a Berne town judge for 18 years, is running unopposed on Nov. 2.

Sow seeds now for smart growth later

Illustration by Forest Byrd

“More houses on the horizon” blared the headline last week on our front-page story — dateline: New Scotland.