GUILDERLAND — Acting on a complaint they received early Thursday morning, Guilderland Police charged a 31-year-old Connecticut man with two felonies — second-degree rape and second-degree criminal sex act where the actor is over 17 and the victim is under 15.

The jury was selected on Monday and the case is expected to go to the jury Thursday or Friday.

The developer who owns Carman Plaza wants to place multi-family dwellings on both ends of the shopping mall on Carman Road.

The Rau family has farmed on Settles Hill since 1799, valuing the open space and agricultural heritage. A new next-door neighbor, Paul Gait, a world-renowned lacrosse player, has gotten approval from the town to build an office and showroom on his property for the lacrosse equipment he makes elsewhere.

Our sense of place resides in buildings that, once demolished, can never be replaced.

The village explored ways to save the house, and was promised a grant for $25,000 to help, but later found that costs of replacing the roof alone would be almost $39,000.

Thieves have been comitting “crimes of opportunity,” say police in neighboring Guilderland and Albany.