Guilderland

Now that a student who was charged in February with making a threat of mass harm has returned to classes, the mother of one of the 20 students he had targeted wants to know what plan the school has in place to protect them. The superintendent assures that the district has safety plans but says, “There is no information I can share on how we would address the needs of a particular child.”

The Albany Diocese has told The Enterprise that, following an unannounced state visit on Jan. 12, noted violations have largely been remedied.

GUILDERLAND — A group of youths were spray-painting racial slurs on a Western Avenue sidewalk near Venezio Avenue last Sunday evening, Aug. 25, according to a release from the Guilderland Police.

Current assessment challenges are nowhere near the scale of earlier years in Guilderland. “That’s good news,” said the school board president. “Please tell me when to panic.”

School board members are planning a retreat once the new member is appointed. While board members will be learning from workshops elsewhere, Superintendent Marie Wiles concluded that “learning as a team … is often more powerful.”

Superintendent Marie Wiles said she would work with the district’s leadership team to put together a plan “to engage the community in relatively short order” on the topic of a smartphone ban throughout the school day. 

On Aug. 6, a lawsuit filed by Pine Bush Senior Living LLC — which had planned to develop 86 units of affordable senior housing on New Karner Road amid the Albany Pine Bush — asked the court to officially terminate a purchase and sales agreement it had with Pine Bush Parc LLC for 51 acres at 20, 22, and 24 New Karner Road. 

One Willow Street resident likened his street to the Daytona Speedway while a West Old State resident said she felt like a hostage in her own home.

ALTAMONT — Altamont Police on Monday responded to a call about a dead man at a Main Street residence. 

First Sergeant Thomas Funk of the Guilderland Police on Tuesday identified the man as village resident Fred Kuntzsch.

A-Metro Movers is seeking permission to demolish the M&M Motel at 2360 Western Ave. as well as a single-family home on the site and replace them with 27,000 square feet of self-storage.