GUILDERLAND — A hefty sentence hand down June 30 for a 15-year-old male leads to questions on the difference between a pocket knife and a weapon and on what age can someone can purchase such an item.

Tears and laughter mingle at Commencement
BKW remembers Anthony Hill

VOORHEESVILLE — With high-school grades averaging 97 percent, this year’s valedictorian and salutatorian rose to the top of their class.

Graduation
Voorheesville celebrates it’s protective bubble rising to the future

A light winter and a rainy spring were the themes of the last two thirds of the high-school sport season. But there were plenty of success in those seasons.

The common writer
Educating the citizens:
Democracy is about debate

By Diane Cameron

ALBANY — The 443 students in the Guilderland High School Class of 2006 — the women in caps and gowns of white, the men in caps and gowns of red — rose to their feet and clapped loud and long for a graduate who wasn’t there.

Two off-duty cops collide
Foley charged with DWI

By Michelle O’Riley

VOORHEESVILLE — An academic tradition will be revolutionized or tampered with next year, depending on one’s viewpoint.