Guilderland

GUILDERLAND — Food burning in an apparently unattended wok on a stove caused heavy smoke at the Best Cook Chinese restaurant in Guilderland on Thursday morning, said Assistant Chief of the Guilderland Fire Department Bill Beha.   

No one in the restaurant when firefighters arrived, he said.  

GUILDERLAND — A single-family home in the 3300 block of East Lydius Street was burglarized in the the early morning hours of Feb. 8, between 12: 30 and 5:30 a.m., while the residents were at home, according to Deputy Chief Curtis Cox of the Guilderland Police.

On Feb. 3rd, A Place Called Om in Guilderland held a mask making event to help start off the Off the Mask campaign to help raise funds for mental illness and for the fashion show coming up in May at the Hearst Media Center in Albany.

On Sunday, Feb 3rd, the Guilderland Elks held a all-you-can-eat breakfast to raise funds for Jack’s Place in Schenectady, which houses families of out-of-town patients at Ellis Hospital and Sunnyview Rehabilitation Hospital.

On January 30th, local elementary schools all visited the SEFCU arena to watch the University at Albany Great Danes women's basketball team play to be inspired to play sports.

On January 30th at Guilderland Town Hall in Guilderland, the Town of Guilderland Emergency Medical Services held an ceremony promoting and handing out awards but also thanking the 73 year service of Western Turnpike.

Joshua Sussman’s familiarity ranges from the standard classical repertoire to Jewish folk traditions, and his teaching is informed both by his training in musicology and in the ways of Chasidism.

Let us not, as a community, make it worse for the victim who was courageous enough to come forward. Let us not re-victimize her.

Allan V. Kotmel

GUILDERLAND — Allan V. Kotmel, a long-time Guilderland School Board member who worked for the state Teachers’ Retirement System, died peacefully on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019, after a two-year battle with cancer. He was 76.

Tod Mell’s petite accuser says she never spoke to Mell about the abuse, which she says occurred “30 or 40 times” over the course of her fifth-grade year, in 2010 to 2011, always behind his desk, below the eye level of other students. She also never told school officials, her parents, or friends about it until the spring of 2018.

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