Police and the community are baffled about why a young Guilderland man held four people hostage at an Albany bank Saturday before hanging himself in the bank manager’s office.

GUILDERLAND — Tuesday night, the town board looked as if it would reconsider the now-controversial re-zone it granted Jeff Thomas a year ago to build senior housing on Brandle Road.

GUILDERLAND — A man arrested for sex crimes in the past was arrested last Thursday, police say, after he "inappropriately touched" a five-year-old boy at Crossgates Mall.

GUILDERLAND — Police say a drunk driver tried to flee from them Tuesday afternoon, striking two other vehicles and crashing into a house, flipping his own vehicle over.

Carman Road condos"
Board waits on re-zone hearing

GUILDERLAND — Kay Fuller knew as a child that she wanted to be a dance teacher. After 40 years of teaching across the country, she’s now instructing students at the Guilderland Ballet.

GUILDERLAND — Joseph Purcell loves to volunteer and, as Community Caregivers’ new president, has made it his mission to improve the agency.
"It’s a great organization," he said.

By next year, the endangered Karner blue butterfly will have more places to subsist.

Orloff Bear vividly remembers his first trip to the Altamont Fair. It was 1923 and he was five years old.

His grandfather, who showed cattle, put six of the family’s best livestock on a train in Coxsackie.

ALTAMONT — Harold Hahn hasn’t seen a crow at the Altamont Fair since 1993. This tells him that perhaps scarecrows work, he said.