Library is read to expand

GUILDERLAND — Trustees of the Guilderland Public Library are unanimous in wanting to bring their $11.8 million expansion plan to public vote in 2012.

ALTAMONT — An elderly woman died in a house fire on Marion Court on Tuesday, overcome by the heat and smoke just steps from her door.

ALTAMONT — Tours of beautiful local homes, Santa’s arrival by train, and a live Nativity made the 10^th annual Victorian Holidays event last weekend a success, according to organizers.

The group Altamont Community Tradition put on the event.

GUILDERLAND — The district is looking at ways to reshape the school day in order to save money.

In a lengthy presentation Tuesday, where school administrators described time as “our most finite resource,” new schedules were proposed for the high school, middle school, and five elementary schools.

GUILDERLAND — McKownville firefighters will be helping their flooded brethren with a boot drive on Saturday.

“We sent a crew to Schoharie after the flood,” said Jim White, president of the McKownville Fire Department.

GUILDERLAND — Guilderland High School has once again been recognized as a Grammy Signature School semi-finalist, based upon the quality and caliber of the music-education program in the school.

Homeless, Fisher charges with burglary

GUILDERLAND — A young man with a troubled past and a history of run-ins with the police department was arrested again last week.

ALTAMONT — The zoning board of appeals here denied a recent request to allow residents to park a trailer beside their home, as they had done for many years before new zoning regulations were enacted.