GUILDERLAND — A man who snatched a woman’s purse at Stuyvesant Plaza on Sunday, police say, tried to flee but was stopped by bystanders.

Daniel Mayberry has a three-year contract that starts on Aug. 1. He will be paid $225,000 annually.

Any county senior can register for the GoGoGrandparent program on a dedicated county line at 855-915-6601. Once registered, the senior then calls ahead at 855-464-6872 to schedule a ride. Rides will be provided Monday through Saturday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

GUILDERLAND — On May 20, voters served by the Guilderland Public Library will choose among five candidates to elect four trustees.

Incumbents Michael Hawrylchak and Michael Puspurs are running along with challengers Matthew Grunert, Joseph Otter, and Bethany Stever.

When the paid GEMS squad took over from the volunteer Western Turnpike Rescue Squad, McGaughnea said, “The ones that we originally bought, we bought from Western Turnpike and they don’t really fit the way we operate as an ALS ambulance,” he said of Advance Life Support.

The town board agreed on legal action to respond to a suit filed by Burger King, claiming the town is responsible for flooding and to seek reimbursement from St. Peter’s Hospital due to long ambulance waits.

The $10 million firehouse will be built in the footprint of the current 58-year-old station. 

One Guilderland resident proposed an award for a student essay on democracy. Another resident questioned the school’s policy on daily recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance. And a middle-school French teacher spoke about teaching liberty and justice in her classroom.

The Senate bill introduced by Patricia Fahy also calls for creating a master plan for the redesign of the 330-acre campus at the west end of Albany, which was planned in the 1950s by Governor W. Averell Harriman, for whom it was named.

“It all started with a single diploma,” Tom Mullins said of his volunteer work, “and now we’re into presenting awards and telling the stories of these guys because these guys and even women rarely talked about their service, what they did, where they were ….