GUILDERLAND — As the library gears up for its 50th year, its trustees are presenting the public with a $2.6 million budget.

GUILDERLAND — A shutout and rain. Those were the themes for the Guilderland baseball team this week.

Illustration by Forest Byrd

The public pays when its servants go awry.

GUILDERLAND — Five candidates are running for three seats on the Guilderland School Board.

Why do we tell stories, why do we write them down and publish them for others to read"

These questions occurred to us as we sat recently in a Farnsworth Middle School classroom, listening to bright and insightful students query an author they admired.

Jennifer Roy shares her art
A story of survival against all odds in the Lodz ghetto is told in the voice of a child

Incorporated in budget
GCSD to save $300K through health-insurance changes

GUILDERLAND — The school board last week unanimously adopted an $82 million spending plan for next year, after being divided on two budget items.

"Late on the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset, we were making our way through a herd of hippopotamuses, there flashed upon my mind, unforeseen and unsought, the phrase, ‘Reverence for Life.’"