The city of Albany has an incentive to bring more garbage to the rapidly filling dump on Rapp Road. The incentive is money. The financially strapped city takes in millions of dollars from landfill users.
GUILDERLAND The governor’s proposal last week for mid-year school-aid cuts, which sent shock waves across the state, left leaders of this prosperous suburban district cautious but not panicked.
NORTHPORT A handful of local cross-country runners qualified for the state meet at Sunken Meadow State Park in Long Island, held on Saturday with a 3.1-mile course.
RENSSELAERVILLE After voting on a preliminary budget for 2009 on Nov. 3, and then printing three different versions for the public, the town board will meet tonight for another budget hearing.
How do we stop hate? We may not be able to change what is in someone’s heart, but we can require civil behavior. When no one objects to bullying, it emboldens the transgressor. And passivity adds to the victims’ suffering.
Conservation coordinator will work on green initiatives
GUILDERLAND The school board has created a new post conservation coordinator to further the district priority of fostering environmental stewardship.
GUILDERLAND The school board here backs a move from half-day to full-day kindergarten if, as the school board president put it, “money wasn’t an object.”
