GUILDERLAND — Joseph Purcell loves to volunteer and, as Community Caregivers’ new president, has made it his mission to improve the agency.
"It’s a great organization," he said.

By next year, the endangered Karner blue butterfly will have more places to subsist.

Birds trapped
A risk to human health

GUILDERLAND — The town’s zoning board heard preliminary plans last Wednesday for Jeff Thomas’s proposed senior-housing complex on Brandle Road.

By Bill Sherman

GUILDERLAND — The federal government is closing down what is left of the Army depot — all materials are slated to be removed by the end of the summer — but the future of the 35 acres on Depot Road remains unclear.

GUILDERLAND — Kevin Reilly, with the Defense National Stockpile Center, said he’s heard from people convinced the mounds of ore at stockpile centers cover missile silos.

and Melissa Hale-Spencer

GUILDERLAND — The two Republican candidates for town board have challenged the Democratic candidates to debate.