GUILDERLAND — Contracts with three out of the town’s four unions have been settled without pay raises for employees.

The community will have a conversation in January about next year’s school budget

GUILDERLAND — For a January forum on next year’s budget, the school board had considered presenting key topics and letting the public ask questions.

School leaders look at setting priorities and matching resources to them

GUILDERLAND — The new superintendent is taking a new approach to building next year’s school budget.

ZBA to decide if gravel mine is legal

GUILDERLAND — Two neighbors are accusing each other of violating town ordinances.

Fred Wagner, owner of Helderberg Excavating and Trucking, Inc., says the town is trying to put him out of business.

GUILDERLAND — Statewide changes in testing students and evaluating faculty have left school board members here frustrated.

Another facility for patients with dementia

A score of cats dumped in woods

GUILDERLAND — “It’s been a brutal, brutal year,” said Sue Green who chairs the Guilderhaven board.

Town’s $31 million budget in place by default

GUILDERLAND — The supervisor’s preliminary $31 million budget, which allows no pay raises, will become the final budget for 2011, by default.

ALTAMONT — The village board may be able to fill the vacant public safety commissioner position by the end of the year, if one of several applicants for the job fits the bill.

GUILDERLAND — Jenn Crux is taking life one week at a time.