By Jordan J. Michael

GUILDERLAND –– Things might be tough for a team that lost 10 players from the year before. The Dutchmen baseball team can’t relate to that theory.

NEW SCOTLAND — Three 16-year-olds were arrested after an Albany County Sheriff’s deputy found them in a stolen car.

Board OKs proposition for nine new school buses

GUILDERLAND — The school board here approved a pared down proposition for bus purchases Tuesday night.

GCSD plans $86M budget, adding full-day K

GUILDERLAND — With federal funds to replace the aid to schools that New York’s governor had planned to cut, Guilderland is now proposing an $85.6 million budget that would raise taxes 1.5 percent.

By Jordan J. Michael

VOORHEESVILLE –– Berne-Knox-Westerlo and Voorheesville baseball squared off in an early season non-league game on Tuesday.

A shepherd who built bridges to make the mundane marvelous

Illustration by Forest Byrd

By Jordan J. Michael

VOORHEESVILLE –– Losing 18 games in a season can raise a lot of questions. It can also teach many lessons.

GUILDERLAND — When Luxi Peng was 2 years old, she moved here with her family from China.

“I was absolutely horrible at English during kindergarten,” she said. So she worked at it.

School board weighs in on $85M spending plan

GUILDERLAND — After weeks of listening to citizens review an $85 million budget proposal for next year, school board members gave their views Tuesday night.

By Zach Simeone