NEW SCOTLAND — Two best friends worked from a new salon Monday afternoon clipping hair. Studio 85 has a posh name that goes along with both the renovations inside — textured flooring that looks and feels like rock — and the location.

Richard Jadick doesn’t see himself as a hero. He doesn’t even think of himself as especially brave. And he’s adamant in saying he wasn’t acting for a political cause.

GUILDERLAND — Jimmy Googas’s 18 points paced the Guilderland boys’ basketball team as it stayed alive in the Section II playoffs.

GUILDERLAND — This past weekend was a busy one for many Guilderland High School athletes — especially those in individual sports.

GUILDERLAND — The Guilderland wrestling team had some success at the Section II state qualifier meet at the Glens Falls Civic Center last weekend.

BERNE — The Berne-Knox-Westerlo bowling teams this season were made up of kids who reached beyond themselves.

GUILDERLAND — Except for the racing and diving pigs of the Altamont Fair, swine have become a rarity in the growing suburb of Guilderland. This summer, they’re making a comeback.

GUILDERLAND — After serving the area for the past 20 years, has been named head of podiatry, a division of the department of orthopedics, at Albany Medical Center.