BERNE — The one thing that couldn’t happen to the Berne-Knox-Westerlo boys’ soccer team this season has happened.

A team chock full of young players has had its few experienced players injured.

VOORHEESVILLE — It has been a long time since the Voorheesville football team beat Watervliet and it took a clutch performance by the offense to do it.

GUILDERLAND — It was a good week for the Guilderland girls’ soccer team.

The Lady Dutch won two games and tied one. The tie is being treated as a bigger deal than the wins.

GUILDERLAND — The Guilderland boys’ soccer team played one of its best games of the year to beat visiting Ballston Spa on Tuesday night.

GUILDERLAND — Big plays determined the outcome in Friday night’s football contest, and Columbia happened to have one more than Guilderland.

By Bill Sherman

ALTAMONT — The bride’s veil fluttered in the evening breeze Friday as she stood outside St. John’s Church, its steeple piercing the blue sky. She stooped to talk to the flower girl, her two-year-old daughter, Madison.

GUILDERLAND — Although the congregation is small, the minister of the quiet church just on the edge of town wants to triple its size. This has one neighbor concerned, as his house is already only a few feet from the existing building.

GUILDERLAND — Democratic Councilwoman Patricia Slavick, who is running for re-election in November, says she has chosen politics over her career.

GUILDERLAND — In the town’s budget for next year, Jean Johnson’s job has been eliminated. Johnson founded the town’s art program for senior citizens and ran it since 1993.