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.

By Zach Simeone

Westmere Elementary earns a Blue Ribbon

McCann named acting GHS principal

GUILDERLAND — The high school here has an enthused acting principal — a self-described “Guilderland devotee” — following a string of short-timers.

Library objects to town’s plan