GUILDERLAND — Students from low-income homes here do markedly worse than their classmates, according to data compiled by the Guilderland School District in its annual report card.

By Jordan J. Michael

GUILDERLAND –– Dutchmen football outlasted Christian Brothers Academy at home on Friday as time was running out.

Five football players suspended for use of performance-enhancing drugs

By Jordan J. Michael

VOORHEESVILLE –– The Voorheesville School District suspended five varsity football players last week for using performance-enhancing drugs.

Thrills and chills as library links community to its past

High-school use of human growth hormone “fascinatingly uncommon,” probably not true

VOORHEESVILLE — The interim superintendent here would not say if the over-the-counter drugs Voorheesville football players were taking were related to human growth hormone.

Westmere Elementary earns a Blue Ribbon

McCann named acting GHS principal

GUILDERLAND — The high school here has an enthused acting principal — a self-described “Guilderland devotee” — following a string of short-timers.

“You can’t tell me no,” says new assistant super

GUILDERLAND — Lin Severance vividly remembers discovering the joy of teaching.

“Watching children learn was like watching flowers open,” she said.

GUILDERLAND CENTER — Joy Freisatz pages through hefty tomes on Norman Rockwell the way most people look through family albums.

She pauses to point out pictures that bring up personal memories. She shares stories from her family’s past and her own childhood.

Voorheesville boys’ soccer team locks out CBA on cold afternoon

By Jordan J. Michael

VOORHEESVILLE –– “We kept the ball rolling on the ground,” said Blackbird soccer player Drew Alteri. “A Class C school just ran over a Class A school.”