By Zach Simeone

Think outside the box

The community of New Scotland has become divided since a developer proposed building a large retail center with a big-box anchor store at the old Bender melon farm. One thing everyone can agree on, though, is that residential development creates a huge tax burden.

ALTAMONT — The dogs in the park on Maple Avenue won’t fetch a ball or a Frisbee, but they will fetch some looks from visitors, and some perhaps will fetch a handsome price.

GUILDERLAND — Long-running and sometimes controversial Tuesday night school board meetings did not faze the students filming them for public access TV.

GUILDERLAND — John Dornbush was a quiet hero.

GUILDERLAND — “Communication is the big issue,” said Richard Weisz after being elected to a fourth one-year term as president of the Guilderland School Board.

There was one big winner and one big loser in the fall sports season of 2008.

ALBANY — A boy who gave bear hugs as a sign of affection was embraced by the Guilderland High School graduating class on June 28 during ceremonies at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center.

Reforms are needed to protect the innocent

“Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness, 1944 

GCSD board pleased with recent report card

GUILDERLAND — School board members said they were pleased with and proud of the results of required government testing, presented in the annual School Report Card.