A building plan for a medical office at Western Avenue and Hague Drive that was approved years ago was never built, and now a new proposal for the same site — this time, a mixed-use building with both apartments and office or retail space — is back before the planning board.

Surprising facts about the new Guilderland town historian, Ann Wemple-Person, include that she knows how to wrangle chickens and drive a tractor.

Zoning board alternate Stuart Reese is a retired math teacher, while new member of the Guilderland Board of Assessment Review David Payton worked for the State Education Department.

The new chairman of the town’s ethics committee, Democratic private-practice attorney Joseph A. Glazer, wrote model ethics law for county governments in the late 1980s.

One of three assisted-living facilities that may soon come to Guilderland now goes back to the town’s planning board to work out any remaining issues with the site plan.

Cumberland Farms hopes to build a second convenience store and gas station in Guilderland.

Carman Road closed down Wednesday night for almost two hours because of a fire that caused heavy damage to a home’s detached garage.

Lanny Ladouceur, a helicopter pilot shot down in Vietnam in 1970, will have part of a road in Guilderland dedicated to his memory at a ceremony on Jan. 19. His mother, who at 94 is thought to be the oldest Gold Star Mother in Albany County, and the woman who was married to him when he died will both be on hand for the tribute at Town Hall.