It’s Sunshine Week, meant to highlight the public’s access to government records and meetings. We believe that, for our democracy — a government of the people, by the people and for the people — to work well, its citizens must be fully and fairly informed.

GUILDERLAND — High school English teachers turned out in force last Tuesday to object to a plan that would combine the jobs of English and social-studies supervisor into one.

GUILDERLAND — The much-awaited response on a single health-insurer for the school district’s employees yielded scant results.

GUILDERLAND — The school superintendent has proposed a $79 million district budget for next year — an increase of about $3 million or 4.51 percent over this year.

GUILDERLAND — The school board president, Gene Danese, announced last Tuesday that he will not seek re-election to the board. His announcement came on the heels of a similar declaration from the board’s vice president, Linda Bakst.

School board mullsWould land purchase be wise or wasteful"

GUILDERLAND — The school board will decide March 14 whether the public will vote in May on purchasing a strip of land in front of Guilderland Elementary School.

In a 2002 review of Lansing’s Christmas book of poems, Stitching Stars, I wrote:

From the editor
Lansing Christman, journalist and poet, was a man of true words

Skiing and shooting
Roosa, a biathlete, wins three silver medals