In tracing a migration of sharecroppers to the Pine Bush,
Lemak writes a community’s history and finds friends

Day-long chase ends with arrest

GUILDERLAND — On Monday night, a car chase led State Troopers from Princetown into Altamont, and then Guilderland, where residents were startled by the whir of helicopters overhead, and the number of police cars on the road.

Attack on Van Wormer Drive was “targeted”

GUILDERLAND — At 3:18 p.m. on Feb. 18, a resident of 10 Van Wormer Drive was bludgeoned in his home, in what police are now calling a “targeted attack,” the result of “a business transaction.”

GUILDERLAND — Residents of Guilderland still have time to apply for the School Tax Relief exemption.

GUILDERLAND — A 10-ton Valentine rolled down Birch Drive on Friday afternoon and stopped in front of Ben Grant’s house.

GUILDERLAND — In the Pine Bush preserve, white pines, some over 200 years old, will be cut down in an attempt to make the area its original ecosystem.

GUILDERLAND — The barrier placed on Empire Avenue was supposed to benefit the people in the surrounding subdivisions, but instead has become a point of contention.

Dodge ball tourney will support local food pantries

GUILDERLAND — It’s not your father’s dodge ball.

A tournament to benefit local food pantries will be held at Guilderland High School on March 6.

Kids sort garbage to track recycling progress

GUILDERLAND — Hands-on learning at Guilderland Elementary meant student volunteers stayed after school last week to sift through barrels of garbage.

GUILDERLAND — The town board’s concern over storm-water runoff into the Black Creek, which flows to the Watervliet Reservoir, Guilderland’s major source of drinking water, has delayed development of the Dutchmen Acres subdivision.