GUILDERLAND — While the $3 million estate of Joseph Calabro has been wending its way through probate, state law governing out-of-wedlock children’s rights to their biological fathers’ estates has changed.

VOORHEESVILLE — The teacher who was arrested for allegedly biting a student last month pleaded not guilty to endangering the welfare of a child in village court on Monday.

GUILDERLAND — Several board members, a parent, and a teacher voiced concerns at last week’s board meeting about proposed changes in school schedules. Varied views were expressed on what the board’s role should be in making the changes.

GUILDERLAND — The school district and the Guilderland Employees Association have reached an impasse in contract negotiations.

“We’re not looking for the world,” said the GEA’s lawyer, Thomas Jordan. “Costs are going up for our members — food and gas — like everyone else. They need a fair wage.”

ALBANY COUNTY — Having been saved by federal legislation five years ago, the county’s Farm Service Agency office is again slated for closure.

GUILDERLAND — The school district, at impasse with its two biggest unions and battered by rising pension and health-care costs, has launched a letter-writing campaign, seeking mandate relief.

The Bridge Center, an all-male residential facility that focuses on intensive rehabilitation for alcoholics and drug addicts, brought a group of 15 men to Ed Frank’s Choices 301 center in Altamont last week.

“I was a fix-it guy and I couldn’t fix this one,” Ed Frank once told us. He was talking about the death of his son from cancer at age 45. “Grief affects people in a lot of different ways.”

GUILDERLAND — Following through on a promise she made a year ago, her first time through the Guilderland budget process, Superintendent Marie Wiles has studied both the district’s use of time and its leadership structure — and made recommendations for change — in preparation for the new budget cycle.