Illustration by Forest Byrd — The Enterprise

GUILDERLAND — The school board elected its leaders Tuesday with split votes and then split again when a new member proposed spending money on programs not included in the budget.

The common writer
Educating the citizens:
Democracy is about debate

By Diane Cameron

ALBANY — The 443 students in the Guilderland High School Class of 2006 — the women in caps and gowns of white, the men in caps and gowns of red — rose to their feet and clapped loud and long for a graduate who wasn’t there.

Illustration by Forest Byrd — The Enterprise

Report outlines alternative funding plans
School board debates school or community foundation



GUILDERLAND — The school board here is discussing whether it should back a foundation to accept private donations.

Illustration by Forest Byrd — The Enterprise

It is impossible to read Elizabeth Kolbert’s new book, Field Notes From a Catastrophe, without wanting to do something — something to stop the catastrophe.

GUILDERLAND — The school board here had a lively debate Tuesday about what to do with a surplus of about $400,000 in its fund balance.

GUILDERLAND — Steve Kozlowski hasn’t been able to get his car in his garage for years.

It’s filled with 20,000 books.

"In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes," pop artist Andy Warhol said in 1968.

We live now in a fast-moving world of shifting images and fleeting sound bytes.