Guilderland

The Altamont Fair will have a holiday lights show put on by Magic of Lights, a private company that produces light shows around the country. Plans to have the event organized by the Police Athletic League, which had put on a holiday lights show for more than two decades and uses the money for charity, fell through.  

Ted Danz, with the Republican and Conservative lines, is facing off against Patricia Fahy, with the Democratic and Working Families lines, to fill the seat that Neil Breslin will vacate at year’s end.

“If you make a venue that big, it’s going to get out of control,”said a Depot Road resident. “And that’s what happened this weekend.”

The project is due back before the zoning board for its December meeting.

GUILDERLAND — One party-goer was stabbed and another was shot, police say, at a music festival in the wee hours of Sunday morning.

A release from the Guilderland Police say events unfolded this way:

As a Willow Street resident again addressed the Guilderland Town Board about making her road safer, Deputy Supervisor Christine Napierski responded, “I think we should invest some time in coming up with some kind of guidelines or policies … We don’t want to rule anything out at this point. I think we need to look at all the options, including, when we pave the road, you know, installing a shoulder.”