School board hangs on to rainy-day fund

GUILDERLAND — The school board here has decided to break the law to prepare the district for dire financial times.

By Jordan J. Michael

NISKAYUNA –– With a 1-3 record, the Flying Dutchmen football team was looking to turn around its season at Niskayuna on Friday. “The dam broke,” said Head Coach Dan Penna.

By Jordan J. Michael

GUILDERLAND –– Tom Alexander, a 1994 Guilderland High School graduate and avid lacrosse player, is getting inducted into the University at Albany Athletic Hall of Fame.

Illustration by Forest Byrd

“Depend on it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”

—   — Samuel Johnson

By Jordan J. Michael

The Guilderland girls’ tennis team claimed the Suburban Council championship with a 13-0 record and is not predicted to loose any time soon.

GUILDERLAND — The school district continues to be satisfied with its legal counsel, the Albany law firm of Girvin & Ferlazzo, said school board President Richard Weisz on Tuesday.

Budget-building begins

GUILDERLAND — While the school year here, financed by an $84 million budget, has just begun, the process for constructing next year’s spending plan is already underway.

Illustration by Forest Byrd

GUILDERLAND — Matthew Nelligan has left his job as a Guilderland schoolteacher but he’s not leaving town.

“I live in Guilderland,” he told The Enterprise this week. “I’m not moving and I’m not going to stop commenting on community issues.”