Guilderland

GUILDERLAND — This week, more than a score of Guilderland athletes signed a National Letter of Intent to play college sports in return for scholarships.

All Guilderland propositions — school and library budgets, a school bus proposition, and a school capital project — passed handily.

GUILDERLAND — A man who snatched a woman’s purse at Stuyvesant Plaza on Sunday, police say, tried to flee but was stopped by bystanders.

On May 7, the board voted, 4 to 1, to allow Jason Southwood to convert the former seasonally-operated Cone Zone at 2028 Western Ave. into a year-round retail dispensary.

The developers of the 72-unit affordable and workforce housing proposal on Mercy Care Lane met with the Guilderland’s Development Planning Committee in December, when no formal application had been submitted to the town. 

Daniel Mayberry has a three-year contract that starts on Aug. 1. He will be paid $225,000 annually.

GUILDERLAND — On May 20, voters served by the Guilderland Public Library will choose among five candidates to elect four trustees.

Incumbents Michael Hawrylchak and Michael Puspurs are running along with challengers Matthew Grunert, Joseph Otter, and Bethany Stever.

When the paid GEMS squad took over from the volunteer Western Turnpike Rescue Squad, McGaughnea said, “The ones that we originally bought, we bought from Western Turnpike and they don’t really fit the way we operate as an ALS ambulance,” he said of Advance Life Support.

The town board agreed on legal action to respond to a suit filed by Burger King, claiming the town is responsible for flooding and to seek reimbursement from St. Peter’s Hospital due to long ambulance waits.

The agency is working to define what constitutes workforce housing