GUILDERLAND — Developers for a project on Grant Hill Road received planning-board approval last week after a year-long wait.

ALTAMONT - The old train station is 20,000 steps closer to becoming a library.

GUILDERLAND - School district voters here gave a resounding yes on Tuesday to a $27 million building renovation project.

GUILDERLAND - After years of waiting and planning and revising, the Rubins were given permits to build a bigger Shabbos House in McKownville by a unanimous vote of the town's zoning board last Wednesday.

GUILDERLAND - Developer Brandon Quadrini won't be able to build eight two-story English Tudor-style townhouses on Ashford Drive as he had planned.

The town board last Thursday unanimously denied his request for a re-zone.

GUILDERLAND - In recent years, budget hearings held by the all-Democratic town board have been short and quiet. That changed with last Tuesday's upset election by two Republicans to the board.

ALTAMONT - Discussion will continue on what has become an evolving plan for zoning in the village.

GUILDERLAND - Dr. Gregory Aidala says he learned something every day during his seven years as superintendent of the Guilderland schools.

GUILDERLAND - In an upset, the town's Democratic leader and the town's longest-serving councilman were ousted in Tuesday's election.