Co-teaching thrives as special-needs students are clustered in classrooms

GUILDERLAND — Special-education teachers are pushing into regular elementary-school classrooms in a partnership that Guilderland educators describe as perfect.

Keep Voorheesville from gong to the dogs, plan now for the future

Illustration by Forest Byrd

The village of Voorheesville is in the midst of a building boom.

School board holds public session to start super search

GUILDERLAND — The search is on.

Ads will be placed this week for a new superintendent for the Guilderland schools.

ALTAMONT — Maddie Jerominek has been standing outside of her home, even in this bitter cold weather, to scream.

“It has to be a blood-curdling scream,” she says, “so I go out in the snow and practice.”

By Jordan J. Michael

GUILDERLAND –– Beth Meyers lets her actions speak for her. She fell in love with field hockey because she refused to quit.

Reset our priorities to shore up a collapsing foundation

Illustration by Forest Byrd

GUILDERLAND — The school board postponed a closed session it had planned for Tuesday night after a number of school board members decided not to go.

At issue is whether the executive session would have been legal.

FMS team designs Future City that makes homes for the homeless

GUILDERLAND — The earthquake hadn’t hit Haiti when the students at Farnsworth Middle School designed a Future City that would help provide housing for survivors of such a disaster.

When an elected board flouts the law, the public loses

For the second time, the Guilderland School Board has violated the state’s Open Meetings Law by starting what it says will be an open search for a new superintendent with a closed session.

Man arrested for posing as a fire inspector

GUILDERLAND — An Albany man was arrested Saturday for impersonating a fire inspector in order to scam money, and the Guilderland Police helped solve the crime.