Budget-building begins

GUILDERLAND — While the school year here, financed by an $84 million budget, has just begun, the process for constructing next year’s spending plan is already underway.

Williams sculpts self and family, Bernardi reads wood, Leclair recreates nature

ALTAMONT — Three local artists use wood as their medium on journeys of exploration that take them down very different paths.

GUILDERLAND — Ulli T. Neuwirth wrote a letter to his infant daughter after police arrested him for assaulting her.

On Sept. 29, Neuwirth’s wife had taken his brother to the airport when their four-month-old baby began to choke, Neuwirth told police.

Redlich asked to sit out budget vote

GUILDERLAND — Supervisor Kenneth Runion, a Democrat on the town board’s three-member majority, has asked that Republican Councilman Warren Redlich recuse himself from the town’s budget process.

GUILDERLAND — Matthew Nelligan has left his job as a Guilderland schoolteacher but he’s not leaving town.

“I live in Guilderland,” he told The Enterprise this week. “I’m not moving and I’m not going to stop commenting on community issues.”

Runion proposes $31 M budget

GUILDERLAND — Next year’s proposed town budget includes the first tax-rate increase in the nine years that Supervisor Kenneth Runion has been preparing Guilderland’s spending plan, he said.

School board members like English scores and like plans to reduce drop-out rate

GUILDERLAND — Students from low-income homes here do markedly worse than their classmates, according to data compiled by the Guilderland School District in its annual report card.

GUILDERLAND — Having answered about 3,000 calls and started a Home for the Holidays program, Western Turnpike Rescue Squad was named the Agency of the Year for 2007 by the Hudson-Mohawk Regional EMS Council.