GCSD residents share their priorities at community forum

GUILDERLAND — Twenty-eight residents answered the school district’s call for guidance on what the community values.

ALTAMONT — High school seniors sat solemnly in front of coffins, each topped with a single rose, as they listened to Mark Gautheir.

Appointments made for new year

GUILDERLAND — A new year did not end old controversies on the Guilderland town board.

Michael Paolino, who left after less than a year as the Guilderland High School principal, now has an interim job as principal of Troy’s middle school.

ALTAMONT — The village is one step closer to improving its century-old underbelly.

A snow day Wednesday for the Troy schools put off a school board vote on naming Michael Paolino as interim principal of the city’s middle school.

Library restoration on track, new zoning replaces 37-year-old regs,
village businesses come and go, pit bull shot, deputy clerk hired

ALTAMONT — The village progressed in a more or less orderly fashion in 2008.

Political divide dictates debate, new police chief and new assessor named

Nearly two years after a mentally retarded woman died following a car accident, the state’s oversight agency found “the circumstances of this death …did not suggest any deficiencies in the care provided.”

GUILDERLAND — Two years after a nationwide raid, Houston-based IFCO has agreed to a $20.7 million settlement, the largest of its kind to date.