Will Western Turnpike stay rural or be developed?

GUILDERLAND — Keeping the rural landscape along the four-mile stretch of Route 20 that connects Princetown and Guilderland is a challenge.

By Jordan J. Michael

GUILDERLAND –– The Dutchmen soccer team was determined to end Niskayuna’s season just as Niskayuna did to Guilderland a year ago.

GUILDERLAND — A year and half after Chief James Murley left the Guilderland Police Department amid accusations of wrongdoing, Albany County’s district attorney has offered him a plea deal.

Walgreens assessment still an issue

GUILDERLAND — Richard Sherwood is the latest town official to come under the scrutiny of the town board’s Republican duo.

By Zach Simeone

KNOX — The town board unanimously approved a tentative budget for 2009 at last week’s meeting. The budget calls for a tax-rate increase of roughly a nickel per $1,000 of assessed value.

NEW SCOTLAND — Developers started laying the groundwork for a shopping center here years before the public was presented with a plan this spring.

Burger in the frontlines, shepherding the press

GUILDERLAND — Elizabeth Burger spent the hours preceding last week’s presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. shepherding reporters around her campus.

By Jordan J. Michael

GUILDERLAND –– The Guilderland wrestling program will be honoring every wrestler since 1960 with a reunion celebration at Casey’s Banquet House in Rensselaer on Nov. 7 at 5:00 p.m.

GUILDERLAND — An unidentified white man snatched a woman’s purse as she and two friends left a Star Plaza restaurant last week, according to the Guilderland Police.

GUILDERLAND — Two weeks before the public hearing for Glass Works Village’s planned unit development designation, the developer has submitted amendments to the PUD legislation, after hearing some concern at the last town board meeting.