$31M budget allows no pay raises

GUILDERLAND — The town board voted 3-to-2 last week not to adopt the supervisor’s $31 million preliminary budget for 2011.

GUILDERLAND — The town has workers in four unions; each union has a contract set to expire at the close of 2010. Each current contract outlines a stepped system, where workers are paid more for every year they work.

GCSD gears up for budget challenges

GUILDERLAND — “Good organizations, when faced with challenges, pull together, take stock of their mission,” Superintendent Marie Wiles told the school board at its meeting on Nov. 3.

Golden centers his first novel on the changing role of women

School districts this year don’t have to provide
extra help for students who fall below new cut-off scores

GUILDERLAND — The Pine Bush Commission’s 11-member board voted unanimously on Oct. 7 to adopt the 2010 management plan, which details its desire to increase the preserve’s land by over 2,000 acres.

GUILDERLAND — The Guilderland School District has 12 bargaining units, listed here from the largest to the smallest:

GUILDERLAND — “I know there are a lot of people…who are afraid of this year’s budget,” the school board president, Richard Weisz, said at the close of Tuesday’s board meeting, during which board members stated their priorities for the 2011-12 budget.

GTA and school administrators plan to work collaboratively

GUILDERLAND — The contract for the district’s biggest union — the Guilderland Teachers’ Association — expires at the end of June.

AWOL soldier discovered by Dewey’s Diner owner

ALTAMONT — Gordon Dewey was born into the diner business. But, in all of his decades of sharing stories with customers, the return of the AWOL soldier has become a favorite.