GUILDERLAND — Guilderhaven is having a fundraiser on Saturday, July 22, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post on Mill Street in Altamont with a bake sale, barbecue at 11:30 a.m., fried dough, and raffle baskets.

Jennifer Romano says her child, a first-grader, suffered “a violent attack of a sexual nature” on the playground by a classmate at Westmere Elementary School, so she is now advocating for better outdoor supervision and more exterior cameras.

Eight companies helped douse a garage fire at 29 Armstrong Circle Saturday afternoon, saving the attached house.

GUILDERLAND — The newest entrant to the upscale mall, Stuyvesant Plaza, is West Elm, a branch of Williams-Sonoma that offers contemporary furniture and home accessories.

West Elm will open a 10,500-square-foot store at the beginning of October, according to Janet Kaplan, vice president with Stuyvesant Plaza.

GUILDERLAND — Four years after a Guilderland man, David Mazzeo, was convicted of grand larceny — and put on probation rather than sent to prison — he was charged with perpetrating a similar investment scam.

A hotel at the entrance to Crossgates Mall nears final approval, as $3 million in McKownville firehouse renovations receive final approval, but the fire district commissioner says that bids all came in higher than expected and that the expansion plan is up in the air as a result.

At its May 23 meeting, several Guilderland school board members did raise questions about whether incidents from Horan’s campaign violated regulations.

For committing a criminal sex act with a child, James Hockenbury of Guilderland will spend 15 years in state prison, not the 10 agreed upon by his attorney and the Albany County District Attorney’s Office, Judge Peter A. Lynch decided Wednesday morning.