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.

GUILDERLAND — The school board here led the way in proposing that the New York State School Boards Association lobby for state-wide changes in retirement benefits for teachers and other school employees.

Committee forms
Golden proposes funds to enrich writing



GUILDERLAND — The pressure of recent proposed budget cuts has inspired a dialogue between the English and social studies departments at the high school.

Adages endure for a reason: They embody common sense.

GUILDERLAND — Everything from how kids exercise to how they eat during school hours comes under a new wellness policy presented to the Guilderland School Board Tuesday night.

GUILDERLAND — The kids at Lynnwood Elementary School know the state’s geography in their muscles and their brains.