Melissa Hale-Spencer



Sound judgment is based on experience.

Last week, our newspaper’s pages carried several tales of travel.





GUILDERLAND — A great red dragon with more than 100 faces roiled through the corridors of Pine Push Elementary School on Friday morning.

Health-insurance debate continues
Golden pushes for competitive bidding, new RFP



GUILDERLAND — At its next meeting, on Feb. 7, the Guilderland School Board will consider three resolutions proposed by board member Peter Golden.







GUILDERLAND — A plastic egg carton. Empty spools of thread. Pieces of a Pentium processor, a broken home computer. Old bottle caps.





GUILDERLAND — School board members here expressed some doubt and skepticism Tuesday about the governor’s proposed budget, particularly in regard to educating special-needs students and in regard to rebates as rewards for restrained spending.





GUILDERLAND — The state’s Board of Regents has made a proposal that schools must offer full-day kindergarten programs.



A civil-service system, most of us would agree, was a good and necessary reform.

Government jobs should not be awarded based on who you know, but rather on what you know. , not patronage.





ALTAMONT — Donald Otterness was a middle-aged man when he saw a slide show of New Zealand and promised himself that, one day, he would go there.

That was 20 years ago.





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