The town board agreed on legal action to respond to a suit filed by Burger King, claiming the town is responsible for flooding and to seek reimbursement from St. Peter’s Hospital due to long ambulance waits.

The $10 million firehouse will be built in the footprint of the current 58-year-old station. 

One Guilderland resident proposed an award for a student essay on democracy. Another resident questioned the school’s policy on daily recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance. And a middle-school French teacher spoke about teaching liberty and justice in her classroom.

The Senate bill introduced by Patricia Fahy also calls for creating a master plan for the redesign of the 330-acre campus at the west end of Albany, which was planned in the 1950s by Governor W. Averell Harriman, for whom it was named.

“It all started with a single diploma,” Tom Mullins said of his volunteer work, “and now we’re into presenting awards and telling the stories of these guys because these guys and even women rarely talked about their service, what they did, where they were ….

GUILDERLAND — Structures made of cans will be displayed at Crossgates Mall from May 6 to 19, to benefit The Food Pantries for the Capital District.

This is the 14th year for the Capital Region CANstruction, and its third year at Crossgates. This year’s theme is “Lights CANmera Action!”

Commissioner Barbara Guinn views the Trump initiatives “as a war on the poor.” She went on, “And to do that for the purpose of supporting additional tax breaks to people who are doing extremely well is difficult to comprehend. And it’s something that we all need to work to say it’s not OK.”

The current owner of the property, Charles Bohl Inc., as well as the developer planning to buy the property to build the apartment complex, Guilderland Village LLC, are listed by the DEC as the applicants for the environmental investigation study.

Coppola, who works as a customer service associate at the Guilderland Hannaford, was busy helping a shopper at 11 a.m. on April 17 when Michele Fleming’s voice came over the supermarket’s public-address system: “All associates, come to the bakery for a very special huddle,” she said.

BETHLEHEM — A routine traffic stop on April 17 led to an arrest for a controlled substance, khat — a drug rarely seen locally.

Amar H. Mehsin, 19, of Albany, was stopped on Route 9W near Bender Lane by Bethlehem Police at midnight, for a traffic violation, according to a release from Bethlehem Police.