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.

GUILDERLAND — Flutist Kathleen O’Mara will perform Claude Bolling’s “Sentimentale” accompanied by the Guilderland Town Band, July 13, at 7:30 at the Guilderland Performing Arts Center in Tawasentha Park. This is the second concert of the band’s 48th season.

GUILDERLAND — Jamal Linton, whom police call the ringleader in a counterfeit credit-card scheme at Crossgates Mall in Guilderland, was sentenced on July 5 to one-and-a-third to four years in state prison.

Linton, 28, of Brooklyn, appeared in Albany County Court before Judge Peter Lynch.

GUILDERLAND — A New Hampshire woman, Brenda Badillo-Vasquez, was charged on June 30 under Leandra’s Law.

ALTAMONT — June Brown McNiven — who served as a nurse in World War II and was devoted to her family — died on Sunday, June 23, 2017, in Ogunquit, Maine, one day shy of her 100th birthday.

GUILDERLAND — Sandee Piculell was known for her loving care and generosity with her family and friends, and with the children she helped at Guilderland’s Farnsworth Middle School.

Ms. Piculell died on Friday, July 7, 2017, surrounded by people who loved her. She was 65.