GCSD voters pass $84M budget in landslide

GUILDERLAND — Voters here passed school and library budgets by a landslide on Tuesday and ousted an incumbent school board member.

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Board rejects his rezone request

ALTAMONT — Local businessman John Donato will not be able to convert his defunct bowling alley into apartments. In a split vote last Tuesday, the village board denied the zoning change.

ALTAMONT — Anthony Salerno, a long-time Albany police officer who still works for the city force, became Altamont’s public safety commissioner in 2005.

ALTAMONT — After waiting nearly a year, Justin Fields had his day in court Friday, but a mistrial was abruptly declared in the midst of the first testimony.

Ilustration by Forest Byrd

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

— Henry Clay, 1829 

GUILDERLAND — says she’s making her first run for school board because she cares about kids.

GUILDERLAND — , an author running for a second term, says people are concerned about the economy and rising prices.

GUILDERLAND — says he is running for a fourth term on the Guilderland School Board because of his commitment to education.

Dornbush, 58, has been on the board since 1999 and currently serves as vice president.