After Hicks was placed in custody, the police found a half-empty bottle of vodka in his car, the report said.

After a December fire, Dr. Steve Oshins plans to design a whole new office and said the practice will be back “bigger, better, and stronger.”

“These wounded birds couldn’t even balance on a tree branch,” said the woman who has been feeding vultures in her suburban neighborhood.  “There was no way they could have gotten their own food.”

The school superintendent has re-assigned a teacher suspected of embezzling union funds to work on curriculum in the district office so as not to disrupt student learning during the investigation.

It was a strong winter for Guilderland indoor track; three athletes made the state competition.

After 12 years, 196 victories, and five Section 2 titles, Gary Chatnik stepped down as the Guilderland girls' lacrosse coach. Chatnik's assistant, Carrie Britt, has filled the position.

Jim, my husband, was rummaging around in the kitchen when I called  to him asking what he was doing. “Looking for a snack” he responded.  He walked around the corner with a big smile on his face, and I knew that I had caught him in the act of nighttime kitchen raiding.

Melissa Hale-Spencer, editor of The Altamont Enterprise, will be the speaker at the Thursday, March 20 meeting of the Guilderland Historical Society when we begin celebration of the newspaper’s longevity with program “Celebrating 30 years of The Enterprise: Then and Now.”

St. John’s Lutheran Church at 140 Maple Ave., in Altamont has the following schedule for Sunday, March 16: 

— 8:30 a.m. there will be an informal worship including modern and ethnic hymns plus a discussion of the format for the sermon; and