GUILDERLAND — The trustees for the Guilderland Public Library, by unanimous vote, have proposed a $2.66 million budget for next year, up about $238,000 or 9.85 percent from this year.

GUILDERLAND — Five candidates are vying for three seats on the Guilderland School Board. Only one incumbent, Richard Weisz, is in the race.

From the editor
We’re ready to press on for another 120 years

BERNE — Everything Amanda Tubbs tries — from cheerleading for Berne-Knox-Westerlo sports teams to crashing cars at the Altamont Fair’s demolition derby — she does with enthusiasm.

$79 million proposed budget
Tax-rate increase predicted at 4.2 percent



GUILDERLAND — After months of debate and public discussion, the school board unanimously adopted a $79 million budget proposal Tuesday night.

GUILDERLAND — Daniel J. Mahoney is an accidental author.

Since he was a boy, he loved drawing, he says. Drawings filled up his notebooks in school; many of them were of his dog and other favorite animals.

Heath-insurance changes
School board hires new broker, sets up business-proactices committee

"A paradigm for what is wrong withour adversarial elective system for selecting judges"

Thomas Spargo has an uncanny way, even when he is wrong, or especially when he is wrong, of pointing up flaws in our judicial system.

GUILDERLAND — Guilderland residents who support the school district’s $79 million budget proposal for next year and those who oppose it both point out that the 75 percent spent on salaries and benefits is not immovable.