“Omar Mateen does not represent us,” said one of three Muslim women addressing a crowd at the Guilderland library the day after the Orlando massacre. Fazana Saleem-Ismail quoted from the Qur’an: “Whoever kills a human being, it is as if he killed all of mankind.”

Programs at the Guilderland public library have "shattered" expectations, its director ways, and electronic usage has soared while circulation of books has increased modestly.

GUILDERLAND — The Guilderland Public Library is now home to a food pantry bin.

The idea for the bin came about gradually.

_{John Rowen, Guilderland}

_{Arlene Shako, Schoharie}

GUILDERLAND — At the Guilderland Historical Society’s Sept. 17 meeting, Tim Wiles will take on the persona of a 19th-Century ball player, dressed in a baseball uniform of the era,  reciting the 1888 comic poem  “Casey At The Bat.”

_{Christopher Aldrich, president; Judy Kahn, long-range planning chair; Guilderland Public Library Board of Trustees}