GUILDERLAND — Beth Bini, the newly named principal of Westmere Elementary School, says she loves children. She means this in a very personal way.

GUILDERLAND — A man without a home slept under the overhang at the front library door.

GCSD board adopts $85M budget with half-percent tax hike

GUILDERLAND — Old barns may get new life as the town board here considers enacting a law that would give a tax break to those who restore or rebuild them.

Restaurant critic wants justice served

GUILDERLAND — A local restaurant critic who was punched last October says he’s pleased an arrest has been made in the assault.

GUILDERLAND — The fall elections are still months away, but speculation about who might be running for which town jobs is already in full force.

Evans’s passion is stitching fabric into art

GUILDERLAND — Diane Evans, a retired math teacher turned studio quilter, is the featured artist at this month’s Upstate Artists Guilds national show, “Loose Threads.”

Board OKs proposition for nine new school buses

GUILDERLAND — The school board here approved a pared down proposition for bus purchases Tuesday night.

GCSD plans $86M budget, adding full-day K

GUILDERLAND — With federal funds to replace the aid to schools that New York’s governor had planned to cut, Guilderland is now proposing an $85.6 million budget that would raise taxes 1.5 percent.