A different cycle: New alchemy will produce black gold

Illustration by Forest Byrd

Our garbage goes to the Rapp road landfill. So filling it too fast is a problem that belongs to all of us. Each of us needs to be part of the solution.

By Jordan J. Michael

CLIFTON PARK –– Going zero for seven is never fun.

By Jordan J. Michael

GUILDERLAND –– The Dutchmen basketball team did a whole lot of losing prior to Jan. 19. The team has done nothing but win since.

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.