By Maggie Gordon
BERNE — Gordon "Gordy" Clapper regularly drives the Berne-Knox-Westerlo late bus — always with his wife, Sharon, in the front seat of the bus.

KNOX—Knox town workers are getting a pay raise.

Whether or not tech valley becomes a reality in the Capital Region, this has been a year to take stock of ourselves and plan for our future.

ALTAMONT — Fun will be afoot in Altamont this Saturday.

By Maggie Gordon

GUILDERLAND — Ginger Miller moves to her own beat — always has.

By Maggie Gordon
GUILDERLAND — Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir sing what Tillery calls "survival music."

GUILDERLAND — Debra O’Brien is running for life — but not her own.

She gets up every morning at 5:30 to run three or four miles before she goes to work as a physical education teacher at Farnsworth Middle School.

GUILDERLAND — As the district is making health a new priority, the school board is scrutinizing the grocery list for school lunches.

The school lunch program at Guilderland pays for itself, taking in over $1 million annually.

GUILDERLAND — To improve water quality and supply, the town is reviewing plans to loop dead-end water lines in a project that is estimated at a cost of $2 million to $4 million.

GUILDERLAND — The public has spoken.

About 100 people attended a library board meeting last Thursday where the trustees ultimately defeated a proposal, 7 to 1, to label sexually-explicit books for young-adult readers.