Trying to attract substitute teaching assistants to work with special-needs students, the Guilderland school district hiked the salary for subs to $25 per hour, causing turmoil. The unit president called for negotiations, which will start on Monday.
Superintendent Marie Wiles said of the Dec. 9 forum, “This will be an information-gathering session for the school community and would help inform a cell phone-free policy.”
The Guilderland Comprehensive Plan Update Committee over the course of two meetings in October went over the final tweaks to its 198-page document, unanimously choosing to adopt and refer it to the town board on Oct. 29.
In a lawsuit filed Oct. 7, Elliot and Adrienne Haase claim that, in July 2023, heavy flooding occurred in their basement due to unresolved issues in the McKownville stormwater system.
“All our animals are safe,” the center’s director, Taylor Huntley, posted to social media in the midst of the fire. “I was here running lessons when my Barn Manager noticed the fire in our hay storage barn.”
Guilderland Supervisor Peter Barber wrote in a recent memo to the town’s Industrial Development Agency that, “The cause of this flooding is the tremendous amounts of stormwaters from a wide area (about 860 acres) that flow into the Town-owned McKownville Reservoir between Route 20 and Stuyvesant Plaza.”
